Word: drawings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said a German banker: "We are making large profits in our heavy industries, in our armament works, but we can draw out only 6%. The rest goes into Government bonds besides all the taxes we have to pay-taxes which are always growing bigger. These paper profits are of no value to industry or to ourselves...
Polish Communists seemed more passionate, more vengeful, less efficient than German Communists. They specialized in foreign affairs. Said one: "Poland and Germany are at present trying to draw France away from its pact with the Soviet Union because France and the Soviet Union are well-nigh invincible. Polish enmity against Czechoslovakia and Rumania is based upon its efforts to keep them away from a Russian bloc. The next war is being planned against the Soviet Union...
...before the hanging of British murderers used to fill British authorities with quiet amusement but they do so no longer. With her Shavex-colored limousine, sound trucks blaring hymns, hired sandwich men and airplanes scattering leaflets, "Sweet Violet," as the penny press calls her, can be counted upon to draw large crowds of gawpers who mill about, tie up traffic for hours (TIME, April 15, 1935). Usually the crowd's sympathies have been with Widow Van der Elst, but the testimony in the Buck Ruxton case was too strong even for British stomachs...
...tree. " 'What the devil are you doing up a persimmon tree?' asked the General. 'Eatin' 'simmons, Gen'l, the private replied. 'What, eating persimmons in July!' exclaimed Stonewall. 'Why, man, don't you know they'll draw your stomach into a hard knot?' 'Waal, Gen'l, I figgered on that. I 'lowed to swink up my belly to fit my rations...
...contest with the Junior Varsity yesterday the Freshman withstood attacks of several Varsity substitutes imported especially for the game to earn an 11-11 draw...