Word: less
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...followers that he was no seer, that if they wanted to know what the future had in store for Europe they might as well go to Old Moore, the astrologer-author of a popular British almanac, as to ask the Head of the British Government. Others with far less opportunity for knowing what was going on in Europe were not so modest...
Once more Italian peasants seemed to be out of luck. Last year the Government mixed wheat flour with so much corn there was not enough left for polenta (corn meal mush) without which life for an Italian peasant is not worth living. Polenta-less peasants raised such a howl that this year Il Duce ordered mixing to stop. But cold wet weather reduced the Italian corn crop to less than last year's 121,110,000 bushels. The fruit crop too (which in orange-and-olive-growing Italy is important) is poor and late...
...hrer Adolf Hitler is no man to take unnecessary risks. If the German Navy were to steam into Danzig Harbor and forcefully take over the Free City, Britain's Peace Front might well become a War Front. A neater, less dangerous solution would be for the Danzig Senate simply to declare the City annexed to Germany. This would place Poland in the bad strategic position of having to take the initiative and becoming the technical aggressor. If Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain should get fainthearted about the Polish Guarantee, as the Nazis confidently expect, he would have a hole, albeit...
...There is no standard diet to fit all ages and classes. A hard-working farmer or laborer needs an abundance of fuel foods such as bread, potatoes and meat. A growing child needs almost twice as much food as his sedentary father. A Southerner needs less starch, sugar and fat than a Northerner. A desk-bound businessman needs practically no white bread, potatoes, cakes and pies. But for health and longevity, eaters of all ages and classes must tuck in one quart of milk every day, a variety of vegetables, fruits, fresh red meat, fish, and eggs several times...
...circulation of all Manhattan's morning papers put together, the largest daily circulation in the land and third largest in the world (the London Daily Express has 2,466,323, the Herald over 2,000,000). The Sunday News sells 3,464,290 copies, a bare 300,000 less than London's record-holding News of the world.* The News employs 3,500 people, pays them $8,000,000 a year. Its annual profit is usually estimated at around $5,000,000. Its fabulous success is due almost entirely to Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson's unique...