Word: wonderfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Secretary Ickes: "If the lady wants peace, I wonder why she came here...
...juices. Last summer, Chemist James English Jr. and James Frederick Bonner, working at the California Institute of Technology with famed Dutch Plantman Aire Jan Haagen-Smit, announced that they had solved the mystery of that healing juice. In a kitchen-simple experiment, they butchered a batch of fresh Kentucky Wonder string beans, dribbled the hormone-rich juice into the pod-linings of other wounded beans. In a few hours, large clumps of healthy new cells piled up. After painstaking analysis, they isolated a complicated compound containing oxalic acid, a common plant substance...
...pained surprise, was hung the tag of J. P. Morgan & Co. Mr. Stettinius and at least three of his fellow boardmen, it was being said, were present or onetime minions of the House of Morgan. By itself this circumstance would have been a nine-day wonder to be pondered and forgotten, along with Mr. Roosevelt's sundry other and short-lived flirtations with Business. What made it a crumb under the President's collar last week was the great debate on Neutrality in Congress...
...public ownership should always turn out Louisville-style, the sooner the U. S. public could forget about it the better off it would be. But this week, while doubtful Louisville citizens could look south into the TVA area and wonder how the greatest public ownership project in U. S. history would turn out, they could look west to plushy, conservative Colorado Springs, Colo., and see how one public ownership enterprise did turn out. For Colorado Springs (pop. 35,000) had just paid off the last $181,000 of the $2,200,000 debt it assumed when it began city operation...
...friendly . . . because he just enjoys the pleasant and engaging role, as a charming woman does. . . . The frightening aspect ... is F. D. R.'s great receptivity. So far as I know he makes no effort to check up on anything I or anyone else has told him. I wonder what would happen if we should selfishly try to put things over...