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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...contracted for about 1,500,000 tons of foreign grain, while June figures show that food imports increased 16%, all of which has to be paid for out of Reichsbanker Schacht's laboriously collected foreign exchange reserves. Aim of the grain requisition is to save for food two million tons of rye and a half-million tons of wheat previously fed to livestock. With Himmler's strong-arm squads on duty to watch for slackers, the farmers shrugged their shoulders, took humorous consolation in the Government's promise to sell them cheap animal fodder...
...gance, but most of the great French creators of style are a match for them. Never accustomed hitherto to showing their latest models to the vulgar public, they have created for the Exposition dresses too breathtakingly extreme, fantastic and sumptuous to be worn by one woman in a million, show them mostly on featureless-faced mannequins rough-hewn of pinkish beige plaster, some as disproportioned as surrealism. Barely practical are the clothes shown by Paris conservatives such as Alix, Worth and Lelong. Scorning plaster women, Lanvin has draped two gowns of medieval inspiration and some handsome furs on a gigantic...
Said Lawyer Solovei, "I guarantee the reversal of this conviction. If I don't, I'll tear my sheepskin into a million pieces and never practice again and you can print that!" Fred Hull. 53, who had made the greatest gamble a man can make -and lost-said nothing. He is scheduled to die in the electric chair at Sing Sing the week of Sept...
Wearer of a daily carnation, owner of a quarter-million-dollar yacht, Lord Camrose is a Conservative with his eyes open, plays cricket with the Government, pursues a middle course in his papers and keeps his personality out of them. In a merciless four-year war for supremacy in the provinces, fought paper by paper, Lord Camrose trounced beefy Lord Rothermere, whose publications are often used as personal sounding boards. It was no accident that the rise of his Daily Telegraph coincided with the slow death of the ostrich-eyed Morning Post. Lord Camrose's empire now includes...
...been since young Robert Hupp sat up all one cold night to assemble his first show model in 1908. From $52,500,000 in 1929, Hupp sales had dropped to $6,118,000 in 1933 and recovered only to $6,868,000 in 1935. Depressed by Hupp's million-dollar losses and by Archie Andrews' merchandising schemes, parts supply companies were refusing to extend credit. In January 1936. Hupp 's new board of directors stopped manufacturing Hupmobiles...