Word: ems
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Give 'em what they want, that's what...
Maritime Customs. Most of the import duties of China are collected and administered by foreigners, chiefly British. Since these revenues are needed to pay the interest on China's foreign loans, it was thought unwise to abandon them to the graft-ridden officialdom of the old Em- pire. Pseudo-Republican China resents this stricture on its sover- eignty...
...passed. Two years later, in 1892, Charles A. Coffin founded it by combining the Edison General Electric Co. and the Thompson-Houston Electric Co. Even after this combination, it was a comparatively small concern engaged in the manufacture of electrical apparatus. Now it has plants in 40 cities, em ploys over 74,000 men and its stock approaches...
...em and sling 'em...
...flip 'em and fling 'em...