Word: sells
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, following up the sell-out achieved by his collected messages to his chief while Ambassador to Germany, Sir Nevile Henderson authored another White Paper. It was a 12,000-word first-hand study of Hitler, the Nazis and the Germans, written as his final report to Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax. Perceptive, witty and compassionate as a Jane Austen novel or a Lytton Strachey biography, it steered hard away from the old 1914 concept of the Germans as Huns or their ruler as The Beast of Berlin. Instead, it described them as understandable dupes and Hitler as a powerful...
...campus as they please. In Spic & Spanish, dark, Puerto Rican St. Vitus Dancer Diosa Costello does everything but break a leg. In I Didn't Know What Time It Was, charming Marcy Wescott tremulously chalks one up for love. In Give It Back to the Indians, Rodgers & Hart sell short the Manhattan they raised a glass to in the Garrick Gaieties. In I Like to Recognize the Tune* Rodgers & Hart-who hate swing-give "hot" bands an earful...
...Texaco and Socony-Vacuum the Barco oil is welcome. Both sell overseas (there is a 21? tariff on oil imports to the U. S.) and neither has enough oil for its distribution system. In a warring world they will doubtless find buyers for their Colombian oil, but may bring it to the U. S. to be refined. Last week old Virgilio Barco was many years in his grave, but his son Jorge (pronounced Horkhay) Barco, in Cúcuta, had himself a few drinks as the royalties began to accumulate...
...county & city health authorities, a multitude of laws play the same game. In 30 cities out of 129 studied, State law demands that store and home milk prices be identical. Health authorities can and do limit the milk supply by refusing to license and inspect farmers who want to sell in the city...
...year on a $100,000 investment. Safeway Stores' cost of delivering milk (including pasteurization, wages, depreciation, etc.) from farm to store customer through its 18-town Pacific Coast chain came to 3? a quart. Safeway complains that in many communities it would like to sell milk several cents cheaper than the law allows...