Word: solvent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rope of Gold avoids the Depression, skips to 1933-1937, a period which has ruined even more novels than the Depression. Josephine Herbst, however, comes through solvent...
Last week Carmi Thompson and his badgered associates finally won a clean bill of health. On the basis of an independent audit by a special master. Judge William E. Baker declared Fidelity fully solvent, dismissed the petition...
...returned his legal residence to his San Simeon estate. Though he issued no detailed explanation of his return to native soil, the inference was that California would now be less expensive for him and his heirs than New York. For Assessor Hollister he listed $1,366,300.25 in "solvent credits," bringing his total assessable properties in San Luis Obispo County to a modest...
...Bermuda and his daughter celebrated her fourth wedding anniversary without her husband at the Astors' big chateau in Newport, Francis Ormond French made formal application for a pick & shovel job with WPA. He explained that he was down to $15. The application was held up. Reason : he had solvent relatives. Result: he received and turned down an invitation to become a Manhattan professional escort, announced he would start work this week as a handyman at a golf driving range...
...Philip Morris was perturbed last year when at least 41 persons died from taking as medicine sulfanilamide that had been mixed with diethylene glycol as a solvent (TIME, Nov. 1). Medical research, accepted by the American Medical Association, indicates however that there is nothing poisonous about diethylene glycol when it is burned as it is in cigarets...