Word: soft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...permit Cavalcade to gain confidence by winning. Cavalcade never jumps the gun at the start of a race, has good manners in the paddock, usually walks to the post with an old bay pony named Dave. He races in size 6 shoes?steel for hard tracks, aluminum for soft ones...
...high of $31). he had another money-raising scheme up his well-tailored sleeve. He arranged to sell the other half of his new issue, 337,000 shares, to Distillers Co. Ltd., Britain's fabulous whiskey trust. The rich & noble lords of Scotch whiskeydom have a soft spot in their hearts for Mr. Porter as well as a shrewd eye for profits. Far from being a bitter competitor. National Distillers sells hundreds of cases of DCL's Scotch, helped DCL to restore its 20% dividend (TIME...
Biggest airplane ever built in the U. S., equally at home in air, water and on land, the 8-42 gave Pan American Airways plenty of cause for pride last week. But prouder than Pan American, was the mild, soft-spoken man who had designed and built this monster of the air out of a boyhood dream...
Tweeds have come off the golf course into the drawing room, are now correct for tea. Reason: the informal shirt waist has been supplanted by blouses of stiff velvet, chenille, soft duvetyn...
...ordered surveys for four others and completed no less than 59,680 rock, brush, bag and log dams to check soil erosion. They are spending $4,500,000 experimenting with fertilizers, millions buying power & light systems, millions financing the sale of electrical gadgets, $100,000 trying to make soft coal smokeless. They have built roads, transmission lines, a town and a tourist camp; planted 2,751,000 trees, 7,000 kudzu vines, nine tons of grass seed; started teaching elderly mountaineers trades and have generally created more hubbub than the Valley has seen since Grant took Shiloh in 1862. Most...