Word: stenches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...retained her women's national golf title (see p. 42). In suburban Glenview, 30,000 a day watched the four-day International Air Races (see p. 44). At the Morrison Hotel holy men gathered for the World Fellowship of Faiths conference (see p. 23). And even the stench-laden stockyards made national news when, following a long Armour & Co. proxy battle, Armour directors voted down their proposed recapitalization plan...
...home out of exile. First three to arrive and line up their former supporters were Colonel Carlos Mendieta, bearded ex-President Mario Garcia Menocal, leader of the Conservative party, and former Mayor Miguel Mariano Gomez of Havana. Colonel Mendieta is elderly. General Menocal and Dr. Gomez have many a stench to live down from their previous political careers, are regarded with small enthusiasm by young Cubans. But President de Cespedes' ability to handle his fractious island is still an unknown quantity...
...Standard Oil has dominated the Chinese oil market ever since its engineers devised a lamp that would burn its brand of kerosene to perfection but, if competing brands were used, would send up such a smoking stench that Chinese were terrified...
Once again in Washington the Spanish Ambassador was asked to the State Department, told that the matter was now one of "grave concern"-fairly strong diplomatic talk. In Madrid, Ambassador Bowers received a letter from the male prisoners: "We are now four in a cell. . . . The stench is unbelievable." They concluded that the female prisoner, Mrs. Caroline Lockwood, "shows alarming signals of an approaching breakdown." In his tourist bureau Judge Vidal said authoritatively. "They cannot expect first-class hotel life while in jail...
...glass thermos bottles. About five months ago Chicago thugs, hired by racketeering labor unionists, began smashing such thermos bottles inside factories and showrooms. When the highly volatile ether spreads through the room, bearing molecules of the valerian compound, the compound penetrates carpets, garments, walls, floors. Overwhelming is its lasting stench...