Word: muchly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years small-town bankers have badgered their big-city brothers for more rural A. B. A. presidents. This year they got their candy. Wachovia is a small-town bank. But no hayseed is Wachovia's able President Hanes. As much at home in Wall Street as in Winston-Salem, he is a big-city banker in a small town...
...there much chance that the Allies would wish to buy ships useless to the U. S. At the outbreak of World War I, 34,825,000 tons of shipping were on the seas, at its end new construction had offset all but 1,784,000 tons lost in the War, scrapped. But at the outbreak of World
...plants, had offered to run the plant profitably for a portion or the savings it could make on operation. To Mayor Scholtz's committee, astounded by the low earnings under city management (2½%), flabbergasted by a helter-skelter rate structure (51½% of Louisville consumers pay too much, 30% too little), it sounded like a good idea...
...technique logical, whimsical, Gallic. When the Germans called France Britain's Rin-Tin-Tin, the French lost little time getting out a story that France's real Rin-Tin-Tin, a trained police dog, had indeed enlisted with his master in the French Army. Paris-Mondial spent much air time twitting Germany on the Moscow deal, hinting at a sort of diplomatic cuckoldry with the Soviets reaping the joys of Germany's conquest...
Great Britain. The BBC, to the much-enduring Britishers, has been a wishy-washy washout, broadcasting mainly late news, and such humdrum as the state of the wallabies at Whipsnade Zoo, the views of ruddy British workmen that things at home are not so bad. But in German, to Germany, the BBC is anything but wishy-washy. Nightly, the BBC exhorts Germans to rise, overthrow their leaders, bring peace to the world...