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Word: knifings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hard-boiled Argentine reason for the embargo: an "infant industry" producing Paraguay tea in Argentina has been started in the past few years, gives employment to some 50.000 Argentine laborers. Amid present "depressed conditions" the native and foreign yerba mate industries cannot both flourish. It seems best to knife the adult neighbor to save one's own child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Knifing a Neighbor | 1/12/1931 | See Source »

...attempt to knife Canada in her wheat pit, so may Canada knife back at the U. S. with an embargo on manufactured products. Already Australia has clapped embargoes on a list of nearly 100 imports (TIME, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Knifing a Neighbor | 1/12/1931 | See Source »

...Puukko Knife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 5, 1931 | 1/5/1931 | See Source »

...strength of a letter rgarding the "Keen Edged Puukko Knife" which TIME published last September (TIME, Sept. 29), a very fine gift has come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 5, 1931 | 1/5/1931 | See Source »

There came yesterday, by registered and special delivery mail, from Kauhava Puukkotehdas, in Finland-the finest Puukko knife I have ever seen. Hand made, six-inch tainless steel blade, black ebonite handle with my name embossed thereon in gold leaf, and with genuine leather sheath-it is a knife to behold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 5, 1931 | 1/5/1931 | See Source »

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