Word: adams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week this situation of pent-up Austrian politics, given Herr Hitler's need of a spectacular success to cap his crackdown on the German Army fortnight ago, and given Herr von Ribbentrop's reputation for sticking at nothing, only one thing more was needed to make Adam's apples bob in Austrian throats. Also at the snuggery, panicky Austrians learned, was the German who was suspected in the U. S. during the War of implication in the Black Tom explosion, the master schemer and intrigant German Ambassador to Austria Franz von Papen...
...Nazi violence, Schuschnigg reputedly pledged not to flaunt his evidence of German guilt before the world and to amnesty the Austrian Nazis now in jail, may even take an Austrian Nazi into his Cabinet. None of this did the Austrian people know officially for sure, but they had their Adam's apples again under control...
Most U. S. burls come from Oregon, principally from the Willamette valley. Biggest U. S. burlman is Alfred Adam Loeb of Portland. Mr. Loeb was the first to ship burls directly to the veneer mills of Europe ten years ago. He now ships about 5,000 a year. Possibly 3,000 more are shipped by other people. Last week, as hundreds of Mr. Loeb's arboreal monstrosities lay on the docks of Portland's Oceanic Terminal, the Pacific Northwest forest experiment station announced that as many burls were exported in 1937 as in 1936, despite the fact that...
Increased industrial efficiency has given the United States "magnificent production, miserable distribution, and appalling unemployment," he said, " but the economists have not advanced beyond Adam Smith...
Squirming in sequins on a Hollywood dressing-room chaise longue, Mae West made her first public statement on her notorious Adam & Eve travesty (TIME, Dec. 27; Jan. 24). Of NBC and Advertising Agents J. Walter Thompson she said: "They were no gentlemen. They let a lady down...