Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...surprising result was obtained last month by a Fortune poll of public opinion. The question: "Should the Democratic powers, including the United States, now stand firm together at any cost to prevent Hitler or Mussolini from taking any more territory at the expense of other nations?" The answers: 56.3 per cent, Yes; 31 per cent, No; undecided, 12.7 per cent...
During 1938 Dictator Mussolini was only a decidedly junior partner in the firm of Hitler & Mussolini, Inc. His noisy agitation to get Corsica and Tunis from France was rated as a weak bluff whose immediate objectives were no more than cheaper tolls for Italian ships in the Suez Canal and control of the Djibouti-Addis Ababa railroad...
...praised novels by Jerome Weidman (I Can Get it for You Wholesale and What's in it for Me?). Reason: their principal character, Harry Bogen, a smart-guy Jew, is enough to rouse anti-Semitic sentiments in a rabbi. Also withdrawn was Miniature Photography, by one of the firm's partners, Richard Simon. Reason: it commends some German-built cameras...
Though Mr. Smith's firm received a 67.77% return on its $2,500,000 net capital employed in 1937 operations, and though Mr. Smith admitted that it was virtually impossible for anyone to make glass bottles by the gob process without "coming to Hartford," he got in a retort, too. Chairman O'Mahoney observed, "that is a sort of AAA in milk bottles," and Witness Smith cracked back: "Not so far from it, but used intelligently...
...books and found them showing such good profit that he did not bother to investigate Mr. Coster personally before arranging additional bank credit for Girard & Co. Next year he helped Coster borrow from Connecticut bankers $1,000,000 with which Coster bought the 105-year-old drug firm of McKesson & Robbins...