Word: felt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Peninsula which used to lead the world in producing the raw materials for binder twine and rope. Read adjustment after land distribution was so violent that production of henequen fell off by half. During the weeks in which the Peninsula was being collectivized nobody in Yucatan's capital felt wealthy and safe enough to buy an automobile. But many peons now have land, tools and weapons for the first time in their lives, although few of them are making interest payments to the ejidol banks. Since the land cannot legally be taken from the peasants, these land banks lend...
This was not wholly ill fortune for him. His eclipse saved him from any blame for the breakdown in the German motorized divisions during the invasion of Austria. Whether because of Fritsch's personal popularity with the army clique* or because the Nazis felt he would soon be needed to run Germany's war machine, a "Court of Honor" recently cleared his personal honor...
...last week in his native Zlin (which lies in Moravia well back of the Sudeten German district), Shoe Master Jan Bat'a, half brother and successor to the late founder, Thomas Bat'a, who was killed when his private plane crashed (TIME, July 25, 1932), felt obliged to make an answer. He announced in the Bat'a magazine Zlin that he had sent German officials genealogical data tracing his Roman Catholic ancestry back...
...last week Dumpy fell sick (indigestion). After a visit to her veterinary and a day's rest, she felt better. Next day, to make up for the day she had missed, she made two of her mysterious trips, brought back two dollars. Then she resumed her schedule of one per day. She made other extra trips later in the week, but disappointed her owners by carrying home in her jaws not extra cash, but a skimpy, flea-ridden terrier, a piece of bone, a sponge, a small grey kitten...
...Scott Paper Co., founded in 1879 by two Yankee brothers named E. I. and Clarence Scott, has never felt a depression, is now the largest company of its kind in the world. To explain this record, Scott officials talk lovingly of the quality of their tissue. Last week Scott talk turned from tissue to issue as the company registered with SEC plans for a $3,000,000 flotation of stock for plant expansion. Simultaneously, genial President Thomas Bayard McCabe reported a half-year net profit of $743,627.72, best six months in Scott's history...