Word: mediums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Chinese merchants and businessmen were frantically protesting that President Roosevelt's policy of hiking the world price of silver makes it impossible for them to settle their debts in silver as usual on New Year's. Since silver is China's only medium of exchange, Chinese chambers of commerce sent bales of petitions to Nanking, begged their Government to give them at least temporary relief from Roosevelt by announcing that Settlement Day is postponed for one year. Until very recently the Nanking Government's prestige was far too low for chambers of commerce...
...young students are given food, lodging and a salary, trained intensively in circus work, especially acrobatics and gymnastics. Besides that, they learn mathematics, physics, hygiene, history of the circus. Most important of all, they get a thorough grounding in Marx, Lenin and Stalin, for the circus, like every medium of Soviet entertainment, is also a medium of propaganda. All loyal clowns try to make their buffoonery a satire on the enemies of the Party without, inefficient bureaucrats within. To the infinite disgust of old and unsympathetic moujiks who go to the circus for amusement, the eager young graduates...
...most part precisely similar to its predecessor, the new LaSalle still is the extreme model in the medium-high class field. It has all the latest General Motors improvements...
Buick brought out a series of lower-medium-priced cars during the year, giving it four complete lines and 25 body types. The new small Buick is built on a 117-in. wheelbase, powered with a straight eight motor, and designed like the bigger models with a sharp V radiator, long narrow hood, broad fenders...
...trade under the late great John Patterson of National Cash Register. Months before the Show he began to hint broadly at a new low-priced edition of Packard's swank eights, super-eights and twin-sixes-but he kept his public guessing. Packard had dipped into the high-medium-priced field with sixes and eights at various times but never before into...