Word: marts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tiny, coffee-producing El Salvador. Last week, in belated appreciation of El Salvador's gesture, made in March 1934 owl-eyed, thick-lipped Manchukuoan Emperor Kang Teh was graciously pleased to decorate El Salvador's Strong Man, swart, curly-haired President General Maximiliano Hernández Martínez. Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Araujo and the Salvadorean Consul General in Tokyo, León Siguenza...
...months later, as League members fumed at him, shrewd Salvadorean President Martínez formally acknowledged the new state in the hope that the vast territory might prove a potent coffee market for El Salvador's only important crop...
Every Sunday night ten senders sat in a secluded room in Chicago's Merchandise Mart, concentrated gravely on cards and vegetables selected by a roulette wheel. Radio listeners tried to pickup the senders' thought waves, record the wheel's selections. In response to $600 worth of concentrating, 1,250,000 replies came in from some 100,000 receivers. In positive language the announcer told the listeners that they were picking them right with remarkable frequency. But Psychologist Goodfellow, after studying the results of 15 broadcasts, pricked Telepath McDonald's iridescent bubble. Though he found...
Public Order: General Severiano Martínez Anido...
...what had dragged the company deeply into the red was its huge wholesale business. Chairman McKinsey's first reform was to lop off the wholesale business entirely, along with 1,600 employes. This was an eminently smart move, as was also his reorganization of Chicago's Merchandise Mart, each of whose first 19 floors contains six acres of floor space. The Mart has still to make money but McKinsey management rented...