Word: ripe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What next? Cuba is ripe for revolution, her President Machado being considered by large sections of the population as a mere puppet of Wall Street. In Venezuela, where the U. S. has enormous oil interests, rules senile Political Boss Juan Vincente Gomez, a more cruel tyrant than Dr. Irigoyen ever was. Brazil is saddled with the worst overproduction situation (coffee) in the whole western hemisphere. Chile with her nitrates is apparently quiet in a dictator's iron hand. In any of these countries revolutions might result in the seizure of power by a group determined to resist what...
Smouldering from this technical defeat by a Prussian Socialist, President von Hindenburg was in ripe mood for drastic action when Chancellor Heinrich Briining of all Germany reported that in the Reich- stag the national Socialist party was continuing to hamstring his fiscal program. Already two luckless Finance Ministers had been forced to resign. The Socialists were blocking the Budget. What should two old soldiers do about these pesky Socialists?for Herr Briining too is an old soldier (Iron Cross...
Friends of Arthur J. Brandt, American Austin president, bring to him no ripe red apples, for the odor of apples is distressing to Mr. Brandt who will leave the table if the fruit is served. From his first job ? with Cleveland Cliffs Iron Co. ? he asked to be discharged, saying that he did not consider himself earning his salary. His first big responsibility came in 1923 when he took over the direction of Oakland Motor Car Co., General Motors' "sick" unit. He made it so healthy that Pontiac was later brought out under Oakland auspices. Later...
...grocery store, the new building is decorated throughout with a grain motif by Architects John Auger Holabird and John Wellborn Root. The entrance grill bristles with fuzzy sheaves and kernels, grain garnishes the elevator doors, flanking the clock outside stand a wheat-raising Egyptian and a corn-fed Amerindian. Ripe wheat heads were thrust into the hands of visitors on the opening day as they peeped into the main trading floor, 113 ft. x 163 ft., where business was going on as usual in the wheat pit (38 ft. across) and nearby corn, oat, rye pits. Visitors gaped...
Shrewd traffickers in this early potent medicine waxed fat. Going further than mere powder-selling they purveyed unicorn horn cups, elaborately carved, which would guarantee living to a ripe old age. Horn walking sticks or wands were still more powerful. The latter, which in today's money were worth well over $100,000, were manufactured from walrus and elephant tusks. Most great cathedral treasuries owned one; they were necessary adjuncts to a monarch's wardrobe...