Word: bohemias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bohemia sabotage in the Skoda munitions works was so bad that the Germans had to exchange 3,000 Czech workers for Italians...
Whatever the planes, the lesson of the raid was simple. Its radius described an arc which included all of Germany proper, part of Poland's once-vaunted "industrial triangl," all of Polish Silesia, with its iron and coal mines and munitions factories, all of Bohemia-Moravia, the whole of Austria, Hungary as far as Budapest, and, at the very edge of the arc's lower end, Rome...
...been denounced by the Pope's leading Catholic ideologists because it misuses the working people in favor of a few capitalistic speculators. Czech Catholics see a clear line of duty, namely, to contribute with all their strength to the consolidation and development of the [Nazi] New Order in Bohemia and Moravia...
Efficiency has never been the dress industry's long suit. For years it flourished in a seller's market; it still inhabits an economic Bohemia where success often depends 50% on talent in designing, 49% on luck and 1% on managerial skill. A shop can be started on a corset string; given a loft and a few cheap machines, anybody can try it. Although dressmaking is Manhattan's biggest manufacturing industry ($349,482,204 in 1939), its units are pygmies: only 60 firms gross as much as $1,000,000 annually. Some 22% of the companies fail...
...could give it. Boom-time big talk was growing louder and more insistent; while an implacable depression was creeping into the consciousness of ordinary citizens. Such a howling opposition between appearance and reality was poison for Fearing's equanimity, but meat for his pen. He became one of Bohemia's most egregious bottle-men (figuring in at least three now half' forgotten novels), and developed a gin-clear view of things that, on occasions, approximated perfect sight. His best poem, Minnie and Mrs. Hoyne ("Get the money! that's all"), is as sardonically human "a nutshell...