Word: sugars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After the compromise had passed a second reading-which virtually assures its final passage-in the House of Assembly, the Deputies trooped into the tea room where they found a monster "peace cake", dedicated to Minister of Justice Tilman Roos. On its sugar-coated top, in pink icing, were the names of all the Cabinet Ministers. Soon; laughing and munching, the Deputies sank their flag differences in chaff and good-humored badinage...
...Overbanked." A bank president from Sugar City, Idaho (Guy Emerson Bowerman), coined the word "overbanked" to characterize the condition of the country from that financial aspect. Urged he: "Fewer, stronger and more profitable banks." He favored consolidations and a country-wide system of chain banks as branches linked to giant parent institutions...
...What we value as individuality -fascinating temperaments, charms of vivacity, woe and sympathy- are all due to definite harmonies, some of which are already known as chemical compounds. Courage is not a matter of 'sand' but of sugar...
...reason why the industrialists should not meet competition scientifically by modernizing their machinery, much needed in the cotton, poplin and woolen industries. Moves are afoot to exploit scientifically coal and other minerals, and recently a Belgian syndicate received a $5.000,000 subsidy to grow beets for the sugar industry...
...know, you want your little sugar dumpling...