Word: joking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grinned. Meantime another 100 words of collect message had come through on the first machine. Soon 400 words had been clicked out. The editor's brow clouded: Was this an expensive practical joke? He sat down again and asked: TUCSON, ARIZ. ARE YOU SURE COLLECT MESSAGE IS SENT BY EX-PRESIDENT HOOVER? Click, Click, Click. The machine responded: SENT BY HOOVER IN PERSON. The editor shrugged. About that time, at the end of 600 words, the original message ended. Cost to the United Press...
...lawyer, Leon Fraser had never worked in a bank that received or paid out cash when, in 1933, he was elected president of Bank for international Settlements. But his lack of experience was no handicap. B. I. S. handles almost no cash, keeps in its vault as a solemn joke nothing but a 25? California gold piece and a counterfeit Spanish sovereign. Banker Fraser was an expert in international finance, had helped organize B. I. S., built up its profitable business in League of Nations loans and transfers among Europe's central banks. All his B. I. S. associates...
...Actually it has a small safe in which the directors keep, as a solemn joke, two coins: a 25? California gold piece (genuine) and a Spanish sovereign (counterfeit...
Datsuns compete in Far East markets with the English Baby Austin, English or French Baby Ford and Italian Fiat Balilla. Datsuns, produced by the mighty House of Mitsubishi-second only to Japan's reigning commercial House of Mitsui-were something of a joke until a few months ago. Production then was less than 125 per month. Today Mitsubishi have invested $1,000,000 in brand new U. S. machinery, stepped production up to 500 cars per month. In Australia white salesmen moan as white prospects now buy from yellowmen 50 Datsuns per month, despite years of intensive Australian propaganda...
...accustomed were correspondents to thinking of Mussolini as anti-French at this time that one great U. S. news service put a dispatch on the wire which caused editors to headline: ITALY HA-HA'S FRENCH AMITY. Half Million Fascists Roar at Mussolini's "Joke...