Word: fights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...harsh remedy of Britain's pound devaluation was beginning to take effect last week. The patients did not like it. Throughout the world, industry faced the fact that in the fight for foreign trade it would now have to compete for all it was worth with cheaper British goods. French Finance Minister Maurice Petsche proposed a Western European trade bloc to meet what he called British "commercial warfare...
...This is an interpretation which is at least questionable . . . and which we are going to continue to fight...
...Nazi heyday, had started the Nlirnberg Neue Kurier, and ex-Brownshirt Gustav Schellenberger inaugurated the Wiesbadener Tageblatt this week. Immediate effect of the new newspapers was not political but economic. In im poverished Germany, where the average reader can afford only one newspaper, and advertising is scarce, papers were fighting a cut-throat war this week for scanty circulation and advertising revenue. It was too soon to tell which papers would survive. But one small democratic newspaper, Straubing's Niederbayrische Nachrichten, had already succumbed; it was driven out by the Straubinger Tage blatt, revived by Dr. Georg Huber...
...small-time pug's last stand on the sordid fringes of the fight racket, with Robert Ryan (TIME, April...
...confidently expects that U.S. women will be falling all over themselves this fall to buy the book, and find out why in the world Gallico thinks so. Male readers are likely to conclude that ex-Sportwriter Gallico made more sense in his unsentimental story of the second Dempsey-Tunney fight...