Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vagabond began armed with the firm resolve to provide his gentle readers with an introduction to Professor Boring's lecture on Night Vision. It seemed proper to have a slight knowledge of the subject, something awe-in-spring even if superficial. So he set out, diligently to plumb Night Vision's mysteries. His searching hand paused before the shelf and drew down "The Science of General Psychology," by Wheeler, a good and solid book, of some six-hundred pages, fitted with two indices, charmingly adapted to the pose of earnest endeavor. But somehow, as his finger ran down the index...
Perfectly logical from the Nazi standpoint, this "lifting" springs from Adolf Hitler's firm belief that his State must strive to create a "pure German race" and that the race today is purest among rustic homesteaders unpolluted by the "Jewish Marxism" to be found in German towns. By setting apart and pampering the peasants Leader Hitler hopes to rear an "aristocracy of blood...
...Dillon, Read set up U. S. & Foreign Securities Corp. To the public it sold $25,000,000 of preferred stock. The firm bought $5,000,000 of second preferred. There were 1,000,000 shares of common stock. The public got 250,000 shares as a bonus-one share of common with each share of preferred. Dillon, Read got 250,000 shares as a bonus for handling the deal. The remaining 500,000 shares went to Dillon, Read partners for $100,000 or 20? a share, which was precisely 20? more than it was worth-then. But with...
Returning to a subject which it has often skirted but never actively attacked, the Radical Socialist Party of France has now pledged itself to a thorough investigation of the international arms and munitions racket. They are especially aroused over the activities of the Schneider-Creusot firm. The current charge against it is that it sold 400 tanks to Germany, through the medium of Holland. As yet the truth of this particular accusation is not known, but the history of this and other armament firms would hold them guilty until proved without any question, innocent. Last summer Beverley Nichols turned...
...patch up marital troubles. Francois is looking at a guide from the Prias Tours Company; he longs to be in that man's place. He is standing before the great Mr. Prias begging for a position; he leaves with the slight consolation that he may hear from the firm when it has an opening. Before he realizes his desire, there are, of course, complications. In a chivalric moment he abducts runaway Madeliene from her knife-throwing guardian, Pedro. As you probably have already guessed, the ending is not unusual, nor should it have been...