Word: adds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...counting up the strength of sides, military men talk about divisions, the basic, more or less self-contained units which generals add or subtract from armies. In fact divisions figure in their calculations as building blocks figure in the architectural dreams of children. Divisions are only roughly equal in size and strength-in France and Russia there are 18,000 men to a division, in Germany, 15,200; in Poland and England, 12,000. Mechanized divisions are even smaller, but their strength is computed in terms of tanks, armored cars, machine-guns...
Having carcened through the Wlash Sweezy storm, Harvard's chief executive has not wasted much time in dry dock before heading again for heavy weather. President Conant has just fired ten assistant professors. For the benefit of the national press services, let us hasten to add that he has not really "fired" them; he has converted their present contracts into terminating appointments. Of course he has a reason his personal interpretation of the Committee of Eight's report...
...receding. Overenthusiastic pessimists who had had trouble finding buyers, suddenly found too many buyers. When professional buying began, the shorts ran to cover, joined the buying parade. Result: in two days the Dow Jones Industrial average rose 3.76 points, and stockbrokers enjoyed two successive million-share days-enough to add up to a boom by 1939 standards...
...Except for normal commercial transactions and British Government payments for arms purchases, Britain, possessor of the world's No. 2 gold hoard (about $3,000,000,000 plus the hidden treasure of India and the mines of the Rand), will no longer add to the top-heavy U. S. gold cache ($15,867,000,000), some 60% of the world's supply. This means that English speculators will no longer be free to unload gold, which is of no present use to the U. S., in exchange for valuable U. S. securities and commodities...
Last week they brought out a big collection of Author Weidman's short stories, The Horse That Could Whistle "Dixie." Published in a wide variety of magazines over the past five years, these 28 stories will not add much to Author Weidman's strong reputation with friendly readers. But they should be good medicine for his noisy, self-appointed censors. The majority deal with the Manhattan East Siders he grew up with, including a few embryo Harry Bogens, but a good number show that Author Weidman's range, human and geographical, goes well beyond the East Side...