Word: worthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...understanding that the exposition managements which seek his services are not necessarily sick but simply want the shot-in-the-arm of financial confidence which the Rose technique provides. Last year when the Texas Centennial fair got under way at Dallas, Doctor Rose was called in by Fort Worth and encouraged, with a contract paying $1,000 a day for 100 days (TIME, June 8, 1936), to unleash his imagination upon a rival fair. Mr. Rose carted his musical circus Jumbo down to Fort Worth and set up four or five other super-spectacles, including Sally Rand and her fans...
Comments on courses were: History 47b: highly recommended; no conflict with 32a. 65b new course, very interesting. 19 well worth work. 22a: good, lots of work and reading; not for Sophomores. 32a and b: lots of work, detailed; probably best history course in college. 34a: lot of reading, but not quizzed; rather easy; interesting. 2: good; too thin for divisionals; lot of reading, but not hard. 45b: all in text; exams dull...
...things. "The Criminal Record" guides the reader expertly through five masterpieces of 'tee' literature, and serves as a fitting prelude to the agony columns that have made the "Saturday Review" famous and may do the same for the "Advocate". The Personals and the Classified ads alone make this issue worth any man's, or, better still, any maid's, quarter. There is also a double-crostic, no harder to work than those Mrs. Kingsley usually presents. The faint Limerick tinge to this one merely shows we are in Boston, not New York, "Bilge Water," a good copy of Quercus' column...
...Smart farmers use the so-called 12-10-1 corn-hog formula to determine whether it is more profitable to sell corn as corn or as pork The formula: when 100 Ib. of hog is worth more nan 12 bu. of corn, raise hogs: when worth less, sell corn. At farm prices hogs are now sellmg for about $11 per cwt., while 12 bu of corn are worth more than $15. Thus corn is favored. Originated during the War when Herbert Hoover, the Food Administrator, was trying to boost hog production, the formula is actually 11.6-to-1, but farmers...
...five years 1926 through 1930 Chesapeake & Ohio Railway owned through its subsidiary, Virginia Transportation Corp., about 1,000,000 shares of stock worth $50,000,000, carrying, together with stock of affiliates, working control of the Erie and Nickel Plate railroads. These holdings were not reported to the Interstate Commerce Commission. C. & O.'s Comptroller E. M. Thomas declared that this was "solely through a clerical error." When Senator Truman marveled at this explanation, Comptroller Thomas continued hotly...