Word: slappings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Indicating that China would slap an embargo on silver exports if the U. S. nationalization program creates undue demand for the metal, Dr. Kung declared after a vigorous pull on his cigar: "China should be ready to act instantly-which we are-if necessary...
...oldtime copperman, President E. Tappan Stannard of Kennecott, who works side by side with a onetime tool manufacturer, Harry O. King, NRA Divisional Administrator. When the copper market developed into a three-price affair-Blue Eagle, non-Blue Eagle, and regular export copper-President Stannard had to slap a ban on non-Blue Eagle copper which he extended for the second time last week. When scrap producers failed to agree on quotas which the code left to them to divide, Administrator King foisted scrap quotas of his own devising on the industry. Currently their toughest problem is to find buyers...
...saying. But the songs and dances make it so. Kykunkor's plot is slender. It tells of an African villager who chooses a bride, succumbs to the evil magic of another less comely party ("the witch woman"), lies unconscious until a witch doctor restores him. Three African drummers slap out the only accompaniment, sometimes weirdly soft, sometimes fiercely loud. Abdul Assen, the witch doctor, had polite audiences in chills last week as he groveled over the prostrate bridegroom, chanted and yelped his frenzied incantations. The bridegroom, a wide-smiling Negro with a large gold tooth, was Asadata Dafora Horton...
...whole grain market. On the same day the rye market broke, oats, wheat and barley started down. Last week, while they were still sliding, the Chicago Board of Trade wrote an open letter to the Treasury, blamed Secretary Morgenthau for the general break in prices because he did not slap an extra duty on the Polish...
...while the Administration is in line for a commendatory slap on the back, there is one item of some magnitude for which they should be called to task; and that is their ill-considered duplication of functions by the N. L. B. and the worthy if forgotten Department of Labor. The President's very excusable regard for the Board as a member of the larger body of the N. R. A. ought not to blind him to the disadvantages consequent upon setting up two bureaucracies with approximately the same objective: the settlement of industrial dislocations. To have the two organizations...