Word: jarring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...five jar things,'' Say the bells of Saint Martin's. "When will you pay me?" Say the bells of Old Bailey...
...Talk can jar markets, but it cannot stop a credit inflation. Base of U.S. credit is the excess reserves of the national banks which today total about $5,000,000,000, theoretically enough to blow up consumer purchasing power by at least another $35,000,000,000. Under the Banking Act of 1935, the Federal Reserve can raise its present reserve requirements by only one-seventh. This would still leave a $30,000,000,000 credit base for consumers...
Dernier Cri. On the Manhattan market appeared a cookie jar that automatically yelled "Mamma!" whenever it was tampered with...
Until last week Sisowath's body remained in the urn. Then priests removed it, washed and dressed it in royal robes, hung over its heart the medal of the order of The Million Elephants and the White Parasol, placed the body in a more impressive jar...
Thousands of yellow-clad priests escorted the jar through the streets of Cambodia's ancient capital, Pnom-Penh, to a towering, shining new pagoda. The body was placed in a gleaming gold-&-silver catafalque. As plaintive music sounded, the new, handsome young King Sianouk of Cambodia, Sisowath's nephew, lighted a fire under Sisowath's bodily remains and incinerated them. An elegantly robed and uniformed audience made obeisance. Among them were French Indo-China's Governor General Admiral Jean Decoux, who used to rule over Sisowath, and a Japanese General representing Emperor Hirohito, who now rules...