Word: sickish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Milton Snavely Hershey stood on the steps of his new office building in Hershey, Pa. one day last week and watched the violent vanguard of the times come swirling into his candy Utopia. Thirty-four years ago there was nothing but a cornfield where he stood. Now the sickish-sweet smell of the world's biggest chocolate factory lay heavy on the surrounding countryside. Ever since the factory had begun to make big money, abstemious Founder Hershey had poured it out to make his people happy. Besides giving most of his corporation's common stock to endow...
...private corridor leading from a White House side door to the President's office. In that office sat a man whom the Supreme Court had stunned to silence with its annihilation of NRA. Down that corridor marched huffy Hugh S. Johnson who for a twelvemonth was NRA personified; sickish Donald Richberg and sheepish Solicitor General Reed whose defense of NRA before the Supreme Court had proved so footling; William Green and John L. Lewis to whom NRA was a professional gift from heaven; dapper Averell Harriman who manned NRA after its first champions had departed; gawky Attorney General Cummings...
...total sales are accounted for by the Hershey bar (almond and plain, 5? and 10?). The rest comes from breakfast cocoa, chocolate syrup, chocolate covering for "enrobing" the candy of other manufacturers. On windless summer days the town of Hershey, Pa. (pop. 2,500) is permeated by a sweet sickish odor which Pennsylvania Dutch farmers round about call "da chockle shtink." But the Hershey earnings have not always been as steady as the Hershey "chockle shtink." Net profit dropped from $7,635,000 in 1931 to $4,246,000 in 1933, largely on account of competition from Peters and Nestle...
Every time I read about the Hoover Dam controversy, I have a recurrence of the same sickish feeling in the pit of my stomach, that I had when I first read of a suggestion to change the name...