Word: winter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...about Wesson Oil. In WOR's area, some 25% of all radios are traditionally tuned to Uncle Don at 6 p. m. E. S. T. In the last nine years the Greenwich Savings Bank in Manhattan opened 35,000 Uncle Don accounts. In one winter season with Uncle Don, I. V. C. Vitamin Pearls, a capsuled vitamin, increased its sales 125% with little other advertising...
Manhattan's winter nightlife season got under way, set New York society columnists to twittering over the new nightspots and their patrons. Most twittery spot: the new Hawaiian Maisonette of the swank St. Regis Hotel. Most twittered-of socialites: Tobacco Millionheiress Doris Duke and her husband James Henry Roberts Cromwell, who was photographed in a lei, hula-hulaing with bare-foot Hawaiian...
Since last winter the Government-subsidized Japan Foreign Trade Bureau has taken offices in San Francisco, in Houston, in Chicago. Two weeks after Germany had made an alliance with Japan's enemy, Russia, grinning Director Suejiro Ogawa of the Chicago bureau decided the time had come to get busy. In the New York Journal of Commerce he ran a full-page advertisement: "Japan is America's Third Largest Customer ... if America would buy more Japanese goods United States exports to Japan could be expanded to even larger proportions...
...toward the mines and factories where they are about to assume their tiresome and cog-like duties at the machines. The artist accentuates the depressing atmosphere which pervades the lives of these men by using as a background grim, grey chimneys and buildings, in addition to a cold, solid, winter sky. It is not difficult to see that Fiene is attempting to show the gradual degeneration of a human being into a walking piece of steel...
Edwin Mims, Jr., who left Cambridge last winter because of ill health, resigned his appointment as instructor in Government and tutor in the Department of Government...