Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt's second principal reason for his plea for good will on the labor front was based entirely on his desire for the success of his progressive measures. Without the backing of the unions, the permanence of the Wagner Act and its prodigy, the N. L. R. B., would be in doubt," he continued...
...Germany and England he douched female rats with 2% or 3% bicarbonate of soda solution to get male offspring, with 1% or 2% lactic acid solution to get females, then mated them as quickly as possible. In forty-two litters since last July, Director Durfee has reported 100% success in predetermining the predominant sex. Rat A845 (see cut) was douched once with lactic acid and bore six females, two males. Then she was douched with bicarbonate and bore four males, two females...
Backed by the money of Oilman Joseph Newton Pew, Publisher Patterson made over his entire magazine, high-pressured circulation from 1,000,000 to 1,350,000, advertising revenue from $300,000 to $1,150,000. All he lacked to be a huge success were the lucrative cosmetic, baby-food and home appliance ads, which instead of flocking to Farm Journal remained with The Farmer's Wife of St. Paul (circ. 1,170,000), only magazine written exclusively for farm women...
Since Hitler began persecuting Jews and Japanese began killing Chinese, millions of peaceful people have been fighting the losers' battles with boycotts. Fortnight ago U. S. Department of Commerce breakdowns of 1938 foreign trade figures measured the boycotts' success. Last week, to stimulate revival of trade, Germany set up a German-American Chamber of Commerce of the Pacific Coast in San Francisco; and in Chicago the German Consul General for the Midwest revealed he was trying to barter German machinery, harmonicas, barbed wire for several hundred thousand tons of U. S. lard...
...General Shoe s success story contains no compromise with Founder Jarman's original high principles. Nevertheless, James Franklin Jarman left an estate of $3,500,000 when he died last August. Two-thirds of his money went to the Jarman Foundation, whose objectives are aiding Bible institutes, Fundamentalist orphanages and missionaries. Management of the company went to his son, Walton Maxey Jarman, president for the past five years...