Word: soda
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...what Nazis took to be the long-awaited break. For what seemed to them exceedingly occult reasons, Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia abruptly took action which had the effect of barring Germans from being granted New York City licenses as masseurs, locksmiths, itinerant musicians, operators of newsstands, keepers of fruit or soda water booths, bootblacks on outdoor stands, operators of employment agencies, ping- pong galleries, pool and billiard parlors, shooting galleries or bathing establishments, public porters, dirt-cart drivers, wardrobe concessionaires, charity entertainment managers, hand-organ grinders and operators of junk shops, junk carts or junk boats...
...world trip, with tiger-hunting in Indo-China, he quieted down, succeeded his ailing uncle as publisher of the Pantagraph. A licensed transport pilot, he flies about in his orange-colored airplane called Scoop, loves to whisk his small son & daughter 100 miles or so for an ice cream soda. To the Cowles team. Publisher Merwin takes financial wizardry and a profound knowledge of all newspaper mechanical operations which both brothers lack...
...sharp, lean, hustling promoter is J. Edward Jones, 41, world's largest dealer in oil royalties. He worked his way through the University of Kansas as a soda jerker, now lives swankily in Scarsdale, N. Y. The intervening years were largely spent in initiating the public into the mysteries of oil royalties. When a landowner leases mineral rights, he retains the right to the royalties-generally one barrel out of every eight. Because he and his clients receive one-eighth of production irrespective of the price of oil, Mr. Jones does not look kindly upon any effort to limit...
...diplomatic reputation saved, Baron Aloisi went to bed with a huge glass of bicarbonate of soda. Foreign Minister Laval left a call for the first morning train to Paris...
...fields; a townsman may drive his car over Tarvia roads or keep out the rain with Barrett roofing; a housewife may buy Polar moth balls. But the average indirect consumer never sees the aniline in his blue serge suit, the tanning alkalis in his oxfords, the caustic soda in his soap, the soda ash in his window panes. For Allied is primarily a purveyor of heavy chemicals to heavy industry...