Word: papered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reporting Hitler's march into Czecho-Slovakia for a New York paper, he said that the Nazi move came as no surprise to foreign correspondents in Prague. "We had expected it for several months before it occurred, and the only reason the American papers seemed so upset about it is that they didn't follow their foreign correspondents...
...paper, however, the booty looks impressive: 1) about $80,000,000 in gold in the Czecho-Slovak National Bank; 2) about $200,000,000 in foreign exchange and foreign assets held abroad by individuals and corporations; 3) an agricultural surplus in Moravia and Bohemia sufficient to feed the Sudetenland, and in Slovakia sufficient to feed Vienna; 4) about 1,200 Czech airplanes (200 of them first-line), 500 tanks, some good heavy artillery; 5) increased industrial and arms capacity...
Chief Proprietor John Walter III (grandson of the founder) ; sturdy, gregarious Editor John Thadeus Delane; shy, lettered Manager (managing editor) Mowbray Morris. During those years The Times made itself the paper of every middle-class Englishman's breakfast table by vociferously championing the bourgeoisie that was climbing to power on the shoulders of a decaying aristocracy...
Boeing's 33-passenger Stratoliner, pressurized to travel above the airways at 20,000 feet, was in her death throes, had broken up in an engineering test dive. Down the crippled ship came, spinning, straightening out, sailing like a piece of ragged paper, carrying the ten men in her to sure death...
...picture of soldiers, a bi cycle saddle attached to the back, twelve marbles on a flat plate, a package of dried fruits, five francs in 50-centime pieces, a piece of cloth tied around the leg, a mineral-water bottle label, one hand drawn on a piece of white paper and the ability to conjugate on arrival, while standing, the imperfect subjunctive of the verb s'asseoir (to sit down).* It is interesting and profitable work for housewives, youths and the unemployed, who have the after noon to themselves...