Word: stink
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expensive remedy. 3) Cutting prices. 4) Putting out special "fighting brands" of 10? cigarets. 5) Training their advertising guns directly at the enemy, which might do the ten-center more good than harm. A FORTUNE suggestion to President George Washington Hill: "STALE FISH STINK. ... So do cheap cigarets...
...backgrounds lent him their support in pushing the idea of slum clearance with Federal funds on a self-amortizing basis. Thus it came about that Reconstruction Finance Corp.'s $1,500,000,000 new capital voted late in June was made available for replacing dark, filthy, unsanitary city stink-holes with light, airy, modern apartments at rents within the reach of humblest wage workers. Last week New Yorkers moved forward to get some of R. F. C.'s money for this purpose...
...expelled for ''personal misconduct." But to many a Columbia student he became a Cause. STRIKE TODAY! went the word. Daily Columbia struck. Opposition from "the athletic crowd'' which had repeatedly menaced Student Harris only lent zest to the goings-on. Eggs flew, eyes were blacked. stink bombs made embarrassed strikers ill. Harris supporters howled lustily for Free Speech et al. but the strike ended gently. Columbia went back to work. Dean Hawkes departed for Europe leaving Student Harris still expelled...
...there should be a stink attached to 'undertaker,' I don't know. ... As long as the public insists on thinking of morticians and funeral directors as 'undertakers,' I feel that the sensible thing . . . is to follow the lines of least resistance, and admit that we are undertakers...
...problem for every municipality is garbage disposal. New York put in its first incinerator in 1908. Other installations have been slow because citizens living near the proposed sites have fought them tooth & nail in the courts as veritable stink-pots. The Supreme Court's mandate spurred city officials to press on, regardless of local complaints, with a plan for 15 new incinerators to cost $17,375,000. During the War, New York considered plans whereby garbage could be reduced to grease and sold at a profit of $3,000,000 per year but the slump in grease prices ended...