Word: deviousness
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...less devious method, of course, would be to repeal the 1934 Silver Purchase Act and let silver's price find its commercial level-perhaps as low as 15? an ounce. Mining State Senators last week were preparing a last-ditch defense of their 71? racket. As though to prove they had lost none of their nerve, they even demanded priorities on mining equipment to meet the new war-industry demand for silver-at twice the already artificial market price. Hard-hitting American Metal Market (trade organ) found a word for it in O. Henry: "The legitimate ethics of pure...
From their devious grapevine of military information, the U.S. Army on Bataan Peninsula this week wrung a gratifying drop of sap. The Japanese had done so badly on Luzon that a new commander had been sent to clean out the remnants of Douglas MacArthur's little force. The substitute: General Tomoyuki Yamashita (TIME, March 2), bandy-legged, pout-bellied commander of the Jap army in its swift, destructive rush through Malaya...
...long and devious career foxy old Franz von Papen has been frequently hunted. In 1932, when he was Germany's Chancellor, a suspicious-looking Mrs. Paul Budde was arrested in the Chancellery with a twelve-inch dagger concealed on her person. In 1934 Papen was on Adolf Hitler's purge list, but was saved by German Army guards sent to his home by the late General Werner von Fritsch. By 1935 Papen had proved his usefulness to Adolf Hitler as Minister to Austria, but Austrian Nazis tried several times to obliterate the Minister. In 1937 Papen...
...this crisis, many an oilman pinned his faith on a dull, devious, plodding form of transport that could never compete with pipelines or tankers for the coastal trade in times of peace. Barge tows of the inland waterways creep up the Mississippi, the Ohio, the Cumberland, the Monongahela, the Allegheny to upriver terminals, there transfer their oil to tank cars for the short haul east. Already Gulf loadings of river barges have doubled or tripled over last year. Loaded at Houston or Corpus Christi, the barges now thread their way through the shallows and marshes of the Gulf Coast...
Failing supplies via India, China must fall back on two devious, difficult routes from Siberia, across the long reaches of Mongolia and Sinkiang. Truck roads, now built and usable, touch Russia's trans-Siberian railway system at two points. Over these lines recently China has received some of Russia's captured German booty-Mauser rifles, machine guns, antitank and anti-aircraft guns. But Joseph Stalin's own interior war traffic jams his railways, and his outward routes to the United Nations are none too sufficient and secure...