Word: hides
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wavering around to a position where the Nazis (or Communists) may not find him hard to deal with. The nut-brown little saint-cum-politico now keeps chattering that "Western democracy, as it functions today, is diluted Naziism or Fascism. At best it is merely a cloak to hide the Nazi and Fascist tendencies of imperialism. And it is to save such 'democracy' that the war is being fought! There is something hypocritical about it." Such vaguely anti-Ally sentiments from Gandhi represent, a sharp change in attitude, for up to about the time France cracked, the Mahatma...
While almost everyone from President Roosevelt down has acknowledged that N. A. B. O. M.'s complaint is just, there was little agreement as to where money for municipal government was to come from if it was not taken out of real estate's well-plucked hide. N. A. B. O. M. panaceas had drawbacks...
Commodity markets also turned about last week. The volatile hide market rose ¾?, moved 100,000 hides in two days before Chicago meat packers, anticipating still higher prices next fall, stopped offering more. Another push came from one of the U. S.'s weakest commodities, cotton; spot prices moved up 68 points, touched off a 100,000,000-yard buying move by cotton textile users fearful of a war famine and the possibility that Congress would raise the level of parity payments, up cotton's price. The battered grain markets, which had taken the worst beating during...
Thunder rumbled over the Mediterranean one day last week. The British-French Mediterranean fleet ploughed eastward to a rendezvous at Alexandria, Egypt. Lighter craft of the Italian. Turkish and British Navies played hide & seek among the islands of the Aegean. And in London the Admiralty announced that the Mediterranean was closed to British merchant ships-they should forsake the strait at Gibraltar and go the long way to the Orient round Cape of Good Hope...
From retirement on his isolated ranch in the hills of Southern California, William S. Hart, 69, strong, silent two-gun man of cinema fame, and his Great Dane, Prince Hamlet the Dane II, emerged to charge his neighbor Duncan McDonald, 20, with peppering Hamlet's hide with buckshot...