Word: normale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first result of this action was to relieve the Japanese bluejackets who for two weeks have been attacked in Shanghai and to save the 3,500,000 non-combatants in Shanghai from immediate danger. For the first time in a fortnight there were normal crowds in the streets. In the International Settlement urbane escapists sat in battered bars and scarred nightspots without fear of having their highball glasses blown from their fists...
...more than matched by Rightist Spain's coal, iron, copper. The country's olive orchards, cork forests, vineyards are about evenly split between the two warring groups. The Leftists control the orange groves in the eastern province of Valencia, and thus the principal Spanish export in normal times. But the Rightists own Spain's bread basket, the great granary of the northwest, leaving to Valencia the problem of feeding 40% of Spain's population from her less agricultural provinces...
...miles southwest to golden Salamanca. Salamanca is only 100 miles from Madrid with excellent highway communications to Avila, advance base for the Madrid front, and has direct rail connections with Portugal, a useful back door for German advisers who wish to avoid passing through France. Into this city whose normal population is less than 25,000, over 50,000 people have been crowded. In its one modern hostelry, the flag bedecked Grand Hotel,* none but German and Italian staff officers and the most potent politicos may dream of finding a room. Humble war correspondents and civilians with urgent business...
...shaped instead of reasonably flat-recently presented herself for examination at Chicago's Lying-in Hospital. She wanted to know whether, if she married, her children would inherit ears like hers. She had three brothers and one sister with similar cupped ears, three brothers and three sisters with normal ears. Speaking for all eleven she asked whether they were going to pass on the embarrassing abnormality to their children...
Said Mr. Gay in his annual report: "I am fearful that, in an effort to cure what might be termed sporadic evils, undue restraints are being placed upon normal, proper action, thus creating abnormal market conditions. Evidence accumulates that the quality of the market has been seriously affected. With muc concern I note the continuance of narrow, illiquid markets in which wide spreads between bid and asked quotations prevail and in which comparatively small volumes of buying or selling create undue fluctuations in prices. Almost daily, situations are called to my attention wherein it is impossible to buy or sell...