Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clerk in a small general store in St. Joseph, Mich., A. Montgomery Ward learned from his farmer customers of the lack of good markets and of the difficulty experienced by producers in obtaining proper returns for their labor. Endeavoring to eliminate as far as possible the profits gained by the middleman, in 1872 he founded, with the help of George R. Thorne, the present mail-order house...
...trade relations came to the fore in another quarter of the week's news when the Institute of Politics at Williamstown, Mass., opened its discussions. In halting English, Peter A. Bogdanov, board chairman of Amtorg, complained that his agency suffered from "a certain lack of confidence created by the many baseless rumors regarding economic conditions in the Soviet Union and the recent unwarranted attacks on the Amtorg." He repeated his warning that if U. S. financing conditions for Russian trade continued "unsatisfactory," Soviet purchasers would shift their business from...
...Today we lack many things appertaining to complete equality. This territory, now evacuated, still is subject to regulations which limit Germany's self-deter-mination and her sovereignty. Even today the German land on the Saar is separated from the mother country, under an administration alien to it. We will hope that our German brothers and sisters on the Saar, to whom we in this hour give a pledge of our gratitude for their loyal attitude, will soon be reunited with us." (Administered by the League today, the Saar will decide by plebiscite in 1935 whether to continue...
...divided among his son and three daughters, and though Dreyfus fils wished to keep the collection intact, his sisters preferred the money. For the past ten years dealers have been delicately led to understand that for a sufficient price, the Dreyfus collection was for sale. There was no lack of offers, but the Dreyfus family were not to be rushed into a sale. Only last week, before the potent checkbook of suave Sir Joseph Duveen, did the Dreyfuses capitulate. Other dealers wagered that if he did not pay the appraised price of $6,000,000 he paid something very close...
...ahead, landed on the paved highway, taxied toward the Lamb car, its wings barring the way. Driver Lamb swung into a ditch to escape a collision, damaged his car though not himself & family. The airplane pilot, en route from Boston to Chicago, had made a forced "deadstick" landing for lack of fuel. He obtained some at a nearby gasoline station, taxied to a field, flew away, leaving the shocked, shaken Lambs to extricate their car, repair...