Word: largesse
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...interesting scene English missionaries are shown simultaneously distributing Bibles and guns to native Africans. These recipients of British largess were played by 50 Senegalese captured last summer on the Western Front in time for the film's shooting. Somewhat confined by the British blockade, Producer Jannings made the fields of Berlin's suburbs serve for the African veldt. It was no trouble to get oxen from Hungary. Nor were soldiers a problem. Adolf Hitler gladly supplied them from his vast unused troop pool...
This week, as U. S. retail sales reached their annual peak, U. S. corporate largess did the same. Directors shook the Christmas tree, brought down a shower of bonuses, raises, extra dividends...
...falls, the problem will only be compounded. Then Mr. Cudahy will not have to "present the reality of dealing with force as the only power." The reality will be pictures of bloated babies, of hungry women, and of Adolf Hitler, expecting to fatten one way or another on the largess of the U. S. people...
...past or present. Most interesting of the historical designs is Avery Johnson's spirited winter scene for Bordentown, N. J., which shows Joseph Bonaparte, ex-King of Spain, who settled on the Delaware River after his brother Napoleon's downfall, watching his footman distribute largess to skaters on his private pond...
Three years ago American Airlines financed the purchase of some Douglas DC-3s and DSTs largely by equipment trust certificates sold to RFC. But Pan American had to seek no such professional giver of largess. It sold $2,500,000 worth of 4% certificates, maturing semiannually from January 1940 to January 1944, to the hardheaded New York Trust Co., has an option to sell it another $1,000,000 worth...