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...back to the United States and would sell their francs or pounds to get dollars. The result would be a jump in the price of the dollar and a decline in the pound and the franc. This change might be happening at the very moment the funds of some luckless individuals were being sent out of the country. Indeed, the export of capital in times like these is a form of speculation, which has in it all the dangers that any speculation of chance-taking transaction may encompass...
...Plow Co., set out with high hopes to make millions of their own. But they had picked a dead cock in the pit. as Mr. Baruch could have told them. Failing to get the financing they had been promised, they were forced to liquidate their company after a few luckless years. General Johnson took a fling alone in the farm implement business while Mr. Peek turned to cornstalks and farm relief...
...families often live in one) must have available at all times a "sanitary passport." Inspectors will stamp this passport, certifying that the room has been aired as per decree. They will also note "improvements," such as greater tidiness, fewer bedbugs. If no improvements are noted after a specified period, luckless roomers will be fined...
...Shut the Great Wall's gates!" he ordered. "Close the Kupei Pass!" Frantically Chinese troops of the Peiping garrison rushed to obey orders and thus shut Jehol's luckless Chinese defenders out of China. Commandeering motor cars, trucks, carts and 10,000 Peiping rickshaws & coolies, the Young Marshal's troops sped 50 mi. to the Wall. No fool, War Lord Tang did not himself try to slip in from Jehol, but 242 motor trucks loaded with his "treasures" reached the Wall. Promptly the treasures vanished...
...catch lazy, inefficient bureaucratic Comrades in its long jaws and crunch them with merciless humor is the job of The Crocodile, Soviet Russia's comic-monthly-with-a-purpose. Crunch went The Crocodile's jaws recently upon luckless Comrade Isakhanov, Red Director of a soviet shoe factory at Tiflis, 1.200 miles south of Moscow...