Word: europeanizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Plum's first coups were not in butter but small arms. During the War he sold some thousands of Danish recoil rifles, grew vain, secretly published an anonymous biography of himself crammed with pictures of Balkan and European royalties, implying that all had received him whereas many...
...storybook fashion, tsar of a band of bears which had fanatically obeyed his orders for two months. But certain it seemed that a colossal effort to reduce the price of stocks had had masterful direction, beginning with the selling of U. S. securities by the French Government and other European investors weeks...
...European conductors will make Chicago debuts-the Russian Emil Cooper, leader of the first Diaghileff ballet, since the Russian Revolution a resident of Paris; and Egon Pollak of the Hamburg Staatsoper...
...General Motors' present leaning to aviation may be considered world-spread. General Motors is the emergency reservoir whence Anthony Herman Gerard Fokker draws cash and credit for his airplane factories in Holland and nine other European countries. Last week he disembarked at England from the U. S. and hastened to Mr. Sloan's transient London quarters. There they held a quick, pointed conference on combining European and American Fokker interests into a worldwide organization with factories on both continents and a centralized sales agency. Quickly after the talk Mr. Fokker left England in his private trimotored plane...
...activities of the New York stock market in the past week have doubtless lent force to the opinions of the more austere. European critics who have so often blamed this country for the lack of the continental finesse in the pursuit of this world's goods...