Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...found various ways to call Duplessis a liar. But his plot still had vote-getting possibilities: 1) it appealed to anti-Semitic prejudice already fostered by Fascist elements in Quebec; 2) it revived an old French-Canadian suspicion that open-door immigration is English Canada's device to offset the expanding French-Canadian population of the province; 3) it implied a threat of new competition in predominantly agricultural Quebec...
...from a Mexican century plant, is a malodorous, milky-looking sour liquid which sells for ten centavos (2?) a liter, is swished down by low-class Mexicans as a substitute for water, which in Mexico is scant and bad. Some scientists believe that pulque's yeast and vitamins offset the unbalanced diet of chili, corn and beans, act as a counterirritant to hot peppers. But that is the best that can be said for it. Its production is unsanitary. Its sale is in filthy, squalid pubs. Its consumption produces a stumbling goofiness after the second or third liter...
...Lady Takes A Chance (RKO-Radio) takes quite a few. It takes a chance with one more treatment of a well-worn story-pattern (the Cowboy & the Lady), and emerges from the scrimmage with a broad grin to offset its black eye. It takes a chance with making the cowboy (John Wayne) rather more than a nice boy, the lady (Jean Arthur) rather less than a lady, and both of them rather more primordially interested in each other than the Hays Office likes to feel that people should be. Director William Seiter seems to have fallen just short...
...where the annual budget is $6,642,000. Brazil has lent Paraguay money for improvements, given the land-locked country use of Santos as a free port. And Argentina, which always considered Paraguay a satellite province, has come to life, canceling the 1870 war debt and increasing imports to offset U.S. and Brazilian influence...
...ounce packet of these films is rushed aboard the first transcontinental plane. And with any kind of luck in the weather, by early Thursday morning our printers in Honolulu should have received the negatives and be at work making the press plates to run off the edition by offset lithography...