Word: losses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...known that the British were secretly playing tit-tat-toe with Italy and France behind Geneva's back (TIME, Oct. 14, 1935, et seq.}, the League states would never have voted Sanctions. In lost trade, Sanctions must have cost at least $275,000,000-a particularly dead loss. Last week, when the Inter-American Peace Conference rose, it had been definitely ascertained that Argentina will NOT be a party to that clause of a neutrality treaty adopted by the other American states which would operate, in case of a European war, to prevent her from selling her beef...
...There is some danger," wrote the Archbishop of York, "that regret for the loss of the brilliant qualities and sympathy for a monarch who in critical days was confronted with a most painful choice, may divert our attention from the fact that the occasion for this choice ought never to have arisen. The harm was not done in December or even in October when he announced his intention of marriage to the Prime Minister, but much earlier...
...much worried about the loss of such a prodigious volume of expert copy as he was deeply and genuinely moved by the death of an old friend, Arthur Brisbane's boss personally filled the "Today" space day after Christmas...
...Brisbane was the greatest journalist of his day. ... I know that this nation and the world have lost incalculably in the death of Arthur Brisbane ... but all that I can think of for the moment is that I have lost my friend. ... I grieve for that and realize the loss. ... I grieve inconsolably . . . that the world in which I must spend my few remaining years will hold for me a blank space...
...perfect right to do, but when the word first spread through the trade early this month, it caused a scramble for the necessary bales. Cotton prices in the past fortnight jumped 1? per lb., giving the South a $10,000,000 Christmas present. Profit for Messrs. Tullis & Craig, loss for those who had to deliver, lay in the fact that good spot cotton had risen more than future cotton because of the insatiable demand from mills (November cotton consumption was 627,000 bales, equal to the all-time record for that month...