Word: madly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that the sum of approximately $1 from every inhabitant of the U. S., Canada, Great Britain and France, would sustain for six months or more the entire population described by Dr. John R. Mott. Surely the world is mad...
...World Is Mad...
Count Stephen Bethlen von Bethlen, onetime Premier of Hungary, decided last week that trying to straighten out the problems of a mad world was a waste of time, announced his retirement from politics. "Nowadays," said he, "only those who breakfast on Jews, lunch on aristocrats, and after dinner deal out fortunes and properties not belonging to them are national heroes. I am no match for them...
...enjoyed is now funneled off by Government command into industrially sterile armaments and showy public monuments. Before the War only 5% of the national income was spent on armaments-and that was a time when Colonel House was reporting that Berlin presented a spectacle of "militarism run stark mad." Today one-fourth of the national income goes for guns, fortresses and stadia for the self-glorification of Nazi party meetings...
...orders again drying up. So Kennecott Copper Corp., big Guggenheim unit, cut the price to 10? and other companies followed. Result: April's high rate of sales continued. Phelps Dodge's President, Louis Shattuck Gates, tall, pleasant, frank, fond of playing poker (because "you can only get mad at yourself if your guess is wrong") remained one rebel against price cutting. Anti-Ford in philosophy, he kept his price at 10½ and consoled himself with the thought that his competitors were bad poker players-while they got the business...