Word: juiciest
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Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, no men to let a beetle-browed Nazi named Hess run off with the title of Mystery Man of World War II, last week presented the world with the deepest, juiciest, most momentous mystery since the war began...
...inquisitive pressmen, Stylist Viereck crooned: "I am not anti-British." In his preface, he grates that Britain's Parliament is "hagridden by a few families welded together by ties of gold and blood," that the Empire is "the greatest graft on earth, the juiciest melon that was ever cut." Since the British aristocracy has long prided itself on providing Britain with leaders the book has no great trouble in elaborating on this theme, adding even a genealogical chart...
Last week some other bankers got a chance to pay Jesse back. It happened in Chicago, whose No. 1 bank, the Continental Illinois (chairman: Jonesman Walter Cummings), is almost a Jones colony (TIME, Nov. 27, 1939). One of the juiciest plums in town is the $35,000-a-year presidency of Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, which fell vacant last month. Jesse already had the nucleus of a good organization built around Cummings (a Reserve Bank director) and First Vice President Howard Payne Preston, an RFC alumnus. For president he wanted his present RFC head, Emil Schram...
Treasure Trove. The "New Order In Asia" is to Japan what the Monroe Doctrine is to the U. S. The Netherlands Indies comprise the juiciest colonial plum in the world. Only one other area produces more rubber, three others more oil. Japan gets one-quarter of its oil there. The islands export sugar, coffee, quinine, tobacco, copra, spices, cattle, timber, coal, tin, gold, silver-all of which Japan can use. Their 60,727,233 inhabitants are a huge market for Japanese textiles and cut-rate manufactures...
Radio, the juiciest source of ASCAP royalties, pays the society monthly on a contract basis, muttering horrible epithets. The present contracts, under which individual stations pay 5% of net receipts plus varying fees, networks pay nothing, expire next December. Last month ASCAP revealed the terms of the next contract: 3%-5% for individual stations, 7½% for the networks. Radio paid a total of $4,300,000 last year, would pay as high as $8,500,000 (its own estimate) in 1941. Last week the two major networks, CBS and NBC, gave their answer: nothing doing. For the first time...