Word: means
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mayor LaGuardia cheerfully repeated his remark, Showman Billy Rose put in a bid for the chamber of horrors fair concession, and the German press still growled, but the latter remained conspicuously silent about another passage in the "dirty Talmud Jew's" remarks. He had also said: "I mean the Hitler Government . . . irresponsible . . . because it is . . . financially bankrupt." And a statement much more injurious to Germany than Mayor LaGuardia's appeared last week on the front page of the New York Times, in a cable from Berlin Correspondent Otto D. Tolischus calling German finance "a blacker art than ever...
...agents for the bonds. It so happens that many of these fiscal agents are also short-term Reich creditors, either under the standstill agreements or as holders of Reich Treasury dollar notes. Seizure of German bank balances in the U. S. for the benefit of U. S. bondholders would mean, in effect, seizure of the funds from which payments are made on the banks' short-term paper...
...gunning, are, how-ever, paying the highest wages in their history and operating on a forty-hour a week basis. These companies are not in strong enough positions, since the last really good textile year was 1927, to withstand labor troubles at this time, and such troubles would undoubtedly mean closing down, perhaps forever...
...carried Boswell further than it over carried any Mortal breathing." In retaliation to Boswell's statement that he was not pleased with the great Doctor's intimacy with the Thrale family, and the restraint which it imposed on him, Mrs. Thrale retorted in the margin. "What Restraint can he mean? Johnson kept everybody else under Restraint...
Sales of drugs comprise 55% of Walgreen Co. business, but drugs to Walgreen mean not only prescriptions and patent medicines but all of more than 13,000 items not sold at cigar counters and soda fountains, including sunsuits, liquor, radios, alarm clocks, golf balls. Prescriptions account for only 2½ of total sales, proprietary medicines 30%. Like every other chain store, Walgreen favors its own brands.- However, a customer asking for a nationally-advertised product always gets it, usually at a lower price than anywhere else in the neighborhood. Motto of the 20th-century general store: "You're always...