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...protest, Dreptatea used up most of its front page to publish a document which contained a remarkable paragraph. It seemed to be an insanely reckless attack on Joseph Stalin. The paragraph...
Spendthrift. On the day Lord wrote, Argentina's total gold and foreign exchange dropped below the amount of money in circulation, for the first time in eight years, Argentina, which had been fat with the profits of selling foodstuffs to a hungry world, had splurged like the most reckless Argentine playboy. A U.S. machinery salesman who had hoped to sell the Argentine Government 20 units was amazed when he easily sold 400, is still trying to figure out how the Government can use them...
...despite its reckless attitudes, its raw wildernesses, its enormous distances, Alaska is also a country of homes, automobiles, electric stoves, housewives, grocery clerks, schools. It has two golf courses, a college (the University of Alaska at Fairbanks), and 14 chambers of commerce. The old order and the new clash; Alaska is racked by growing pains, wild adolescent dreams, horrible adolescent doubts, stirring memories, confusion and controversy...
Stake-$100 Million. The bloodless Nicaraguan explosion had been set off by Arguello's reckless ultimatum to Somoza to get out of the country within 24 hours. Somoza was of a mind to take a powder. After all, he was due for an operation at Rochester's Mayo Clinic, and he was said to have a fat $20 million in the U.S. But he also had $100 million in land, cattle, railways, bananas and coffee in Nicaragua. He would trust that to no one. From Argüello he got an extension of time...
Evalyn refused to be subdued. She had chosen a reckless way of life, and she pursued it with persistent hardihood. She was constantly moved to outbursts of wild generosity. When the straggling Bonus Army of World War I veterans marched on Washington in 1932, she fed them, bought them cigarets, provided a circus tent to house them...