Word: luck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...indecisive groom forsakes his new wife for his old girl, goes to Mexico with one of his friends (Fred Keating, who used to make birdcages disappear and eat needles while conversing glibly) to get a quick divorce. But this time Actress Bankhead changes her mind, a bit of luck for Magician Keating...
...word "inflation" has a horrid sound in most conservative ears, and there is some basis for this dislike. Germany, Japan, and Russia have had very bad luck when handling it, allowing money to depreciate until it was more useful for lighting fires than for exchange. But in these cases the situation was handled with complete lack of common-sense, and under the pressure of conditions not present with us. On the positive side, economists advocate inflation, through the printing of irredeemable scrip by the government, for the very simple reason that more money must be put into circulation...
...Though he speaks no foreign languages, he staffs his offices as far as possible with native labor, respects native customs. He knows that a maroon car cannot be sold in Japan because that color is reserved for royalty, that yellow means mourning to the Chinese, that green is bad luck to the Indian. He has a home in Oyster Bay, N. Y. from which he commutes on his sporadic visits in a speed boat. He likes to drive an automobile as fast as it will...
...force the fighting into the western Pacific for a clear decision, the U. S. suffers a severe and costly reverse when it unsuccessfully attempts to seize the Bonin Islands, 500 mi. south of Japan. From Samoa as a base it has better luck when it takes Truk Island in the Carolines. With dummy battleships it feints at Guam, later at Yap. The latter gesture, as planned, brings the Japanese Grand Fleet at top speed from Manila. The U. S. Battle Force cuts it off, forces it to fight. In a major engagement near Yap the Japs are hammered to bits...
...Chicago, having walked under a ladder and presided at a 13-course luncheon of the 13-membered Anti-Superstition Club on Friday, Jan. 13, to defy Bad Luck, skeptical Sidney Nicholas Strotz, president of Chicago's $7,000,000 Stadium, had to announce that his Stadium had gone into receivership...