Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hospitals are full and the situation haphazard. The Italians admit six deaths from sunstroke a day, and for two days there has not been water in the city...
Most big shopkeepers admit that a "loss leader" is sometimes good business. Customers attracted to a store by the cut-rate price of one product linger to buy other products on which the store can make a profit. But "loss leaders" become a large hole in the profit bucket when customers throng a store to buy only the "loss leader" and nothing else. Forcefully last week was this axiom brought home to scores of cut-rate storekeepers in Los Angeles, home of some of the fiercest price wars...
...impose Britannia's will-for the general good (see below). Italians, in any case, cannot start fighting in Africa until the rainy season ends three months hence. "England already holds half of Africa," cried Rome's Il Giornale, "and we know how she got it. If we admit that she is doing good by civilizing what she holds, she must admit our right to do the same...
Whether others agree or disagree with this stand is at present not our concern; all will admit the right of the league members to hold such a belief. However, we do feel that the league is open to censure in representing itself as a part of the University and thus causing it to be brought into the melee...
Patiño Tin. Though he would be the last to admit it. Edward Joel Cornish of National Lead Co. is indirectly one of the biggest contributors to the Bolivian cause in the Gran Chaco War. The Bolivian Government finances the war with a "patriotic" tax on exports; Bolivia's biggest export is tin produced by Patiño Mines & Enterprises Consolidated, Inc.; the hungriest consumer of Simon Patiño's tin is the U.S. and in the U.S. the second biggest buyer of the bluish-white metal is Mr. Cornish. Long allied with Senor Pati...