Word: eves
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Axis issues were on the climb. Typical examples: Jap bonds (Sterling Loan 53, 1907), which on the eve of war were quoted at 22, had risen to 29. Italian certificates (Maremmana Railway 55, 1862), quoted at 55, stood at 23^ when the U.S. got into the war; German (73, 1924, Young), selling at 17, had more than doubled. On the newly opened Frankfurt Exchange, stocks & bonds of much-bombed industries were 10 to 15% above wartime levels. Even in companies which had been completely destroyed, security prices were often 40 to 50% of their wartime value. But this...
...Adam and Eve before the Fall were "food gatherers," in anthropological jargon. Like Bushmen and Piutes, they lived on what they could rustle up. But after they ate "of the tree of knowledge" and were driven from the Garden (Genesis 3: 16-19), they became husbandmen. Then Adam tilled the earth "in the sweat of his face...
...Britain-in fact, he presents himself as one of Prater Violet's principal characters. Grim skeleton of his novel-as well as its basic irony-is the filming by British Imperial Bulldog Pictures of a tear-jerker operetta about old Vienna named "Prater Violet"-just on the eve of Dictator Dollfuss' putsch to power. For the script of Prater Violet, Bulldog's President Chatsworth hires Christopher Isherwood, who knows Berlin ("Berlin ['s] . . . pretty much the same kind of setup [as Vienna], isn't it?") and, as director, imports famed Moviemaker Friedrich Bergmann, who is forced...
Somewhat less elated and carefree were the men who held the fate of nearly a fifth of mankind in their hands. On the eve of the national anniversary they were seated around a banqueting table in Chungking. Guest of honor was Mao Tse-tung, the Communist leader from Yenan, a man with destiny written in his strong face. Opposite him sat one of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's chief negotiators, shrewd General Chang Chih-chung. For 45 seesawing days the two men, backed by their aides, had pitted plan against plan to heal the breach between Communist China...
Argentines showed some spunk last week. Strong Man Perón's renewed "state of siege" (TIME, Oct. 8), the retaliating strike by 30,000 students and police counterblows made Argentina look for a while like a country on the eve of a civil...