Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only honest monetary standard and must be defended as such, Benito Mussolini uttered the words now cut deep into the marble slab of Pesaro's monument: I SAY TO THE WHOLE CIVILIZED WORLD THAT WE WILL DEFEND THE LIRA TO THE LAST BREATH, TO THE LAST DROP OF BLOOD...
Meanwhile the new Soviet envoy to Rumania, smart Minister Mikhail Ostrovsky, arrived at Bucharest by a comfortable roundabout route. When he presented his credentials to King Carol without mentioning Bessarabia, Rumanian editors concluded that, despite Soviet geography books, Dictator Stalin has decided to drop that question...
...penny arcades of upper Broadway, in the gaudy Sixth Avenue Sportland of Schork & Schaffer, in all the dark and smoky dens where New Yorkers drop hundreds of millions of nickels into coin machines and peep shows, the name of William Rabkin is great indeed. A fast-talking Jew of 40 with a passion for invention, William Rabkin gave the world the coin-operated electric digger. This glass-encased device has nervous metal claws on the end of a shaft which is manipulated by a row of dials outside. The shaft hangs over a pile of hard candies. With a little...
...York the oldtime slot machine which turns out grimy pieces of chewing gum at the drop of a coin is illegal as soon as it is converted into a money-paying gambling device. But the pin game is a game of skill, according to a ruling of the Department of Licenses. Last week the License Commissioner announced that some 10,000 pin game machines had been licensed at $5 a machine. Wiseacres estimated that another 25,000 machines are being operated in the city without licenses. An organization called the Skill Games Board of Trade was formed last year...
...navy and the freedom allowed owners of capital. It has been claimed that the products of manufacture should be exacted as readily as arms and legs, eyes and heads and lives. Such arguments, however, insult the patriotism of the armorers, all of whom would gladly give their last drop of blood, if necessary, for the good of their country. It is indeed the highest type of national service to supply the troops with the materials of defence--at a profit of only six per cent. As for the suggested bonuses: these sums will be donated to the Red Cross...