Word: eaten
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Berlin where the "honor" or potential expansion of Germany is eaten, slept and breathed, no sign appeared that Adolf Hitler would sign. On the assumption that he would not, German editors, despite the close government press control, evinced fear. Said the Berlin businessman's Börsenzeitung: "France has every opportunity to assault us, using her alliance with the Soviet as a lever, without having to fear British intervention." If Germany chooses to sign for Peace, France has no such opportunity...
...contain a new category of punishment, 'Civic Death,' reducing the status of the condemned to that of a permanent outcast." As an afterthought, Dr. Frank recalled that the ancient Huns had a somewhat similar procedure of driving an offender out of the tribe to starve or be eaten by wild beasts. "We are in fact reviving," he observed, "an old German custom...
Every broker knew what the "peculiar circumstances" were: with 4,000,000 bu. of wheat, rye, corn and oats, Rosenbaum Grain Corp. had gone to the wall the previous afternoon. The scarcity of wheat caused by Drought had eaten into Manny Rosenbaum's warehouse business. Income from storing other people's wheat (1½? a month per bu.) had sunk out of sight; in its place was a heavy drain on cash for upkeep and taxes. And loans from banks were large. Rosenbaum Grain Corp. filed petitions in Delaware's and Chicago's Federal Courts...
...other obvious source of infection, that of an infected food-handler in the Central Kitchens, seemed also disproved, when it was ascertained that two of the men answering the letter had eaten lunch at a club on Wednesday, and held that meal responsible for their illness. Also, among the sufferers who reported yesterday were several from the Union and one man who lives outside the University dormitories, and consequently ate at none of the Halls...
...first-quarter profits failed to cover first-quarter dividends by nearly $12,000,000-15th consecutive quarterly period in which A. T. & T. has had to draw on surplus to maintain its traditional $9 rate. And the succession of deficits since 1932 has eaten into the surplus of A. T. & T. and its subsidiaries to the extent of about $110,000,000. Every three months, just before the directors meet for dividend action, Wall Street nervously debates the possibility of a dividend cut. But with $250,000,000 in cash & Government bonds and surplus still above...