Word: proof
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the price of wheat dropped on the Liverpool exchange to the lowest figure on record. At 47¼? it slipped under the 50? record set during the hard times of Queen Elizabeth in 1592. Not the threat of man's destruction in war, but proof of nature's productivity, left Liverpool traders aghast: from Bulgaria, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Lithuania, Poland, Rumania, the U. S. came reports of above-average crops. All told, world wheat production for 1939 was estimated at 3,995,000,000 bushels, exclusive of Russia and China, world consumption at about...
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...garrison posts and communication lines. Against them Chinese forces in the last six months have won back more towns and outposts than they have lost. Without sending more men to China, the Chinese argue, the Japanese cannot marshal at any one point the necessary strength for a successful offensive. Proof that the Japanese are stalled is in the fact that no recent offensive has been undertaken and that the Japanese have merely been lunging here, thrusting there, without coordination or important effect...
...further proof of their inability to lower prices until huge new audiences are found, publishers point to Modern Age Books, which two years ago set out to publish paperbound original editions at 35? to 50?. Backed by the Richard Storrs Childs fortune, Modern Age advertised heavily, cut costs by using the Rumford Press between printings of Reader's Digest, set up elaborate distribution machinery. Its losses the first year (attributed in part to inexperience) were reported at around $500,000. Since then Modern Age prices have risen nearer the $1 level...
...included was the Last Judgment altarpiece in Danzig Cathedral, unavailable because of "international tension." About the finest thing in the exhibition was an altarpiece in nine panels (polyptych) from Lübeck, painted with an austere simplification of detail rare in Flemish art. Most famous of all, and best proof of "Master Hans's" ability to handle crowded, minute composition, was his series of six panels on the life of St. Ursula from Bruges' own ancient Hospital of St. John. According to legend, the artist might never have painted this challenge to the Italian rhythmists...