Word: inners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...massive, fanlike ears surgically set back to his skull. Hiler has also suffered from his name. When a San Francisco guidebook spoke of him in 1939 as Hilaire Hitler, he got so mad he sued the publisher and writers for $100,000. Today he seems in fine inner and outer repair. So does Papa, of whom says Hilaire: "He is to painting what Saroyan is to writing: neither knows a thing about his craft; each does a damn good...
...inner U.S. chess circles Koltanowski is known as "Kolty the Yogi." This dates back to an exhibition in Richmond, Va., when a socialite female kibitzer insisted, over his protests, that he must be a yogi to possess such powers of concentration. "I suppose I have an auditory memory," explains Koltanowski. "It is as though I have a gramophone record in the back of my head. I record the moves on it. If I forget, I play the record over...
...only outsider ever to wiggle into this inner sanctum was a New York Times reporter who in 1938 unearthed a complete ten-year income account and balance sheet from moldy court records. These proved New Jersey Zinc everything it was supposed to be: at the end of depression year 1934, cash and securities totaled $41,691,000, surplus was $29,515,000, total assets $84,218,000. Sales figures were less impressive, ranged from 1926's $26,769,000 to 1932's $7,715,000. But the key to the company's prosperity was the lusty...
Ambiguous Empire. The most significant single thing about Japan's exploitation of East Asia is the differentiation between inner and outer zones of Empire. The inner zone roughly comprises the territory gained before Pearl Harbor, the outer zone the rest...
Japan pursues two distinct policies in the two zones. Capital investment, colonization, education and a centrifugal imperialism are evident in the inner zone. Emigration to the outer zone is discouraged, perhaps even forbidden; those who go there are sent on specific missions. No capital is invested in the outer zone. The cream is simply skimmed by persuasion or force. Throughout the outer zone an inextricable web of legal ownership is being developed, while on the surface autonomy is apparently maintained-as with the Vargas regime in the Philippines, the Luang Pitul Songgram government in Thailand, the surviving Decoux governorship...