Word: offing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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At the Moulin Rouge in Paris, police quelled a riot of Frenchmen incensed at the discovery that they had paid good francs to see The Fox Movietone Follies? in English.
Tourists. The U. S. had a favorable trade balance (exports over imports) of more than a billion dollars last year. This asset was liquidated by the spendings abroad of U. S. tourists who, in national economic effect, had a free trip over and back. When the stockmarket crashed, its effect...
Cinema. An endless tape bound round and round the world is the U. S. cinema film. Last week Londoners flocked to see Masks of the Devil while Paris and Berlin gaped simultaneously at The Broadway Melody. In the French chamber arose Deputy Gaston Gerard last week to exclaim: "In the...
Missionaries. Christmas spirit was, of course, zealously upheld in many a foreign land by 12,283 U. S. missionaries?8,363 in Asia, 2,160 in Latin America, 1,689 m Africa, 71 in Australia and Oceanica.
Raw Material. Biggest quest: Rubber. Blocked in the Philippines by adverse land laws, Harvey Firestone is pushing forward with new plantations in Liberia; Henry Ford has six thousand square miles for rubber production in Brazil; the U. S. Rubber Co.'s plantations in Sumatra and Malaya have grown from 14...