Word: soft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hitherto when insects and larvae attacked fine Gobelin tapestries, or worms burrowed deep into the soft wood of old chairs, very little could be done about it. Now, however, the objects suspected of harboring any of nature's anarchists are simply locked up in a dark safe-like room and thoroughly fumigated with carboxide gas for a period of from 24 to 36 hours...
...mine selling price of every lump of the nation's soft coal last week fell a new 15% Federal tax, 90% of which will be rebated to producers who sign the NRA-like code prescribed by the Bituminous Coal Conservation Act of 1935. Moving promptly to resolve what President Roosevelt called "doubt, however reasonable," as to the Act's constitutionality, President James W. Carter of Virginia's and West Virginia's Carter Coal Co. lost one decision to the Government, won one against his family in District of Columbia Supreme Court...
...Cars- Heeding the public alarm about Sudden Death in highway accidents, the motormakers now soft-pedal speed. Though a number of makes will go 100 m.p.h. and nearly all will go faster this year than last, every Show visitor was handed a brochure on safe & sane driving...
Jack Dempsey's (50th and 8th Ave.) supplies an excellent dinner with steaks grilled over charcoal before your eyes. There's a blue mirrored, soft-lighted cocktail room, and a supper dance room with two orchestras. You may enjoy Jack's endless collection of antographed photographs of the world's famous...
Buoyant with faith, the soft-voiced 68-year-oldster opened the convention last week by crying to his disciples: "For every hundred delegates here assembled today a million prayers go up to the God of Justice that our efforts in this convention may not tail. We dare not fail. Our Plan is the sole id only hope of a confused and distracted nation. We have become an avalanche ol political power that no derision, no ridicule, no conspiracy of silence can stem...