Word: backed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Coast Guard Commander Lieut. Burke prudently sought advice from Frank ("Bring 'Em Back Alive") Buck at his New York World's Fair Jungleland. Advised Big Gamester Buck: "They'll have to shoot him. Can't catch a lion loose on a ship...
...Europe goes back to peace, last week's crisis will also leave an indelible mark on the U. S. economy, forcing agriculture to recognize that its continental market is gone. The new German-Russian agreement ends hope of the U. S. regaining its lost German markets for cotton and foodstuffs, may mean that U. S. trade will be squeezed out of Central Europe altogether. Germany's new economic tie-up with Russia might enable her to reduce her 1938 purchases here ($107,588,000, down from an average of $400,364,000 in 1926-30) to zero. Perhaps...
...without working capital to buy silk, Colony Hosiery took orders only on commission. After eight months in business it now buys its own silk, has advance orders for two years (mostly gathered by President Colony in frequent trips to Manhattan), is working two shifts a day and is paying back its RFC loan at $250 a month. Its weekly payroll is $1,500 and its wages range from $20 a week (for watchmen) to $40 (for skilled workers...
...Palo Alto, Calif., San Francisco's Dr. Edna H. Fisher described to a Pacific Science Congress how an otter eats a clam. Description: after catching a clam the otter dives to the ocean floor, picks up a hefty rock, rises to the surface, floats on his back, balances the rock on his belly, clasps the clam between his forepaws, brings it down on the rock with a mighty whack. Shell broken, the otter eats...
From his trip to South American jungles in 1937 Bemelmans brings back a hilarious travelogue of rivers "as loud as the finale of Götterdammerung," of flora that looked "as if the florists had thrown the end of a Hutton wedding down the back-stairs," of one Captain Vigoroux, famed in cigaret ads. Two tales, one about a dachshund, another about a Nazi dissenter who invented a seventh-class funeral, are not only funny but belong with the best satire yet written on dictators. In a story about a cobbler who belied the old proverb, Bemelmans combines entertainment...