Word: rubbings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...straightforward-not to say, brutally frank-as its title, "The Westerner" sticks up to its neck in the woolly, daredevil days of the frontier. The location is Texas, the center of action Judge Roy Bean's "court," a decrepit saloon in which justice flows as freely as the "rub of the brush." The time is the 1860's, and the homesteaders and cattleraisers are busily warring for Lebensraum, giving Sam Goldwyn the chance of his life to shoot some gruesome pictures of burning homes and fields...
...year defined Brazil's three possible courses as follows: "1) Absolute understanding with the totalitarians; 2) economic understanding with them and political identification with formal democracy; 3) economic understanding and political identification with democracy." Preferred was the third-"if it is possible." The great and all-important economic rub to Course 3 is that coffee is the only thing Brazil exports that the U. S. wants, whereas the Germans want many raw materials, including cotton, from Brazil in exchange for her manufactured goods...
announced development of a process by which it expected to make butadiene rub ber from butane for only 20? a pound...
...policemen who were supposed to guard the U. S. S. R.'s ex-War Chief, launched an "investigation." According to Leon Trotsky there was no mystery to the assault. It was just one more attempt on the part of the agents of his onetime colleague, Joseph Stalin, to rub him out. To the world at large, and the U. S. in particular, it was just one more piece cf evidence that a lot of people who are not Mexicans are desperately interested in what goes on in Mexico...
...third day the market stopped to catch its breath, rub its eyes, see whether Europe really was in the mess the ticker showed. On that day 3,770,000 shares were traded, tops for the week. Net result: a rise of 0.81 in the averages, which stopped new margin calls, but sucked back into the market many a small margin trader...