Word: rub
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...elbows on the desk, gives vent to a sigh, perhaps even a puff, and begins. Fifteen minutes contain a dignified, non-irritating drone, dedicated to the fact that Gladstone had gained a reputation as a great minister of finance. Then there may be an interruption. The professor will rub his eyes. He will give assurances that the following story is amusing. The story will consume five minutes. There will be renewed assurances that the story was amusing. The lecture will proceed...
...level up. General Motors which earned 11? a share ($6,870,000) in the first quarter, and 7? a share ($5,326,000) in the second quarter a year ago, last week reported three-month earnings of 90? a share ($41,198,169). Well might President Alfred P. Sloan rub his hands over these figures*#151;and very opportune were they, for General Motors still has $13,000,000 tied up in closed banks, much of which may prove a loss. Chrysler Corp. topped a first-quarter loss of $3,038,000 by a second-quarter profit...
...appeal," cried Gustav Krupp von Bohlen, "for American understanding-sympathetic understanding-of Germany!" Soon afterward Chancellor Hitler placed the Fatherland's great industrialists on his right hand last week. He created and attached to his Cabinet an advisory Economic Council on which Munitions Tycoon Krupp von Bohlen will rub elbows with Electric Tycoon Carl Friedrich von Siemens and Steel Tycoon Fritz Thyssen. This was all very well for German business with a big "B" but in politics the Cabinet proceeded to carry on with arbitrary violence. Thirty laws were decreed at a single Cabinet sitting between...
...York Herald Tribune last week headlined its report of a violent day in the Central Methodist Church, Brooklyn: METHODISTS RUB SOCIALIST TRACE OUT OF PLATFORM...
...millers refuse to join the agreement and try to beat wheat down to 80?, Secretary Wallace can, under the law. coerce them into line by suspending their Federal licenses as processors and penalizing them $1,000 each day they continue without a license. Said he: "I want to rub the noses of the people in each industry in the facts and allow them to determine the methods we shall use. In that way we'll keep our skirts clean and make them share the responsibility with...