Word: showing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That all was fair in love and show business seemed to be the consensus of opinion at the Hasty Pudding Club last night, following accusations of plagiarisms from dramatic aspirants down at Columbia, where animosity was reported to be growing hourly...
Last week, at the Berlin Automobile Show, for the second time in a year Adolf Hitler posed alongside a gleaming sample of his $396 Strength Through Joy flivver. Well did he know, but nothing did he say about the wretchedly slow progress in production of the Volkswagen, which was conceived more than five years ago but will not be on the market until...
...workers had also laid highspeed roads to Falkenburg, within 95 miles of the Polish Corridor; to Hamburg, in the northwest corner of the Reich; to Saarbrücken on the French frontier; to Munich in the south and Vienna in the southeast. As Herr Hitler was opening the Auto Show, 300,000 workmen were resting in 218 barrack towns for the next day of digging, blasting and concrete-pouring on Autobahnen in every quarter of the Reich, even in East Prussia, on the other side of the Polish Corridor...
Sixty years ago most scholars graduated from U. S. schools and colleges had nothing tangible to show for it. To an Iowa country school teacher who knew a thing or two about psychology, that seemed an undesirable state of affairs. So he set up a shop in Maquoketa, Iowa and began to manufacture diplomas to symbolize academic accomplishment. Soon Mr. William Welch was turning out diplomas at a great rate.* When his plant burned down in 1914 it was a coast-to-coast newspaper story, for many of the nation's graduates had to be informed that they would...
...large, boycotting has been ineffective against producer goods such as German chemicals, iron pipes, tools, wire, certain kinds of industrial machines. Results show most clearly in consumer goods like gloves, furs, toys. In Manhattan, with the biggest Jewish concentration in the U. S., Macy, Saks-Fifth Avenue, Gimbel Bros., Lord & Taylor, Franklin Simon, Bloomingdale, B. Altman and many other stores have stopped carrying German-made merchandise...