Word: long
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Opined Lord Beaverbrook's Evening Standard next day: "So long as the U. S. persists in its policy of collecting War Debts ... the hope that the World War may become nothing more than an evil memory . . . must remain an unfulfilled and merely pious wish...
...Romano is the first child of my second series!" exclaimed the Dictator when the babe was born. Last week he said: "Anna Maria is the second child of my second series, which I intend to make a long one." Placed on scales, Babe Anna Maria was reported to weigh no less than eleven pounds. Pious Catholics rejoiced that her names are those of the Grandmother and the Mother of Jesus Christ...
...finally to a wholesale grocer. The family was solvent rather than affluent and William's boyhood allowance consisted of first one and later two shillings per week. At the age of 19, he entered his father's store, where one of his first duties was the cutting up of long bars of soap. At that time, the soapmaker was never the soap-seller. Manufacturers sent out soap-bars which whole- salers made into cakes and stamped with their own names. After some years in his father's business, William Lever decided that the possibilities of expansion were too limited...
...enterprises?the development of the Belgian Congo. Situated in the least illuminated portions of darkest Africa, first explored by the famed Sir Henry Morton Stanley, the Belgian Congo consists of 900,000 square miles of tropical jungle, crossed by the Equator and watered by the Congo River. It was long-bearded, farsighted, savagely-flayed Leopold II of Belgium who first saw in the Congo district an opportunity for taking up the White Man's burden and the Black Man's resources. Leopold created the Congo Free State, fought with natives and slavers, built railroads, finally (1908) made the Congo...
...money which his Bank of Telluride owed them. He had robbed Peter (the six Manhattan banks) to pay Paul (three banks which were creditors of his bank).* Thus Waggoner had apparently not engineered his scheme for any personal profit, but had sacrificed himself for his bank, which for a long time had been faced with dwindling deposits and threatened collapse. The Bank of Telluride was gainer by almost a halfmillion; the six Manhattan banks were losers by a halfmillion...