Word: slicings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Need Hitlerite "Bait" Rosenberg waste all those words to explain a concept of holiness [TIME, Sept. 30]? Twenty-one years ago, it was compacted into the simple phrase, "Gott mit Vns." The world understood it then and still does understand it. And no matter how thin Spiritualist Rosenberg may slice it, it will always taste the same, and will always be recognized as the same ill-served, German-adopted variety of meat. RALPH C. WELCH Schenectady...
Japanese businessmen's naive delight over an Occidental War was perfectly natural. The World War was, to Japan alone among major belligerents, just one huge slice of cake. On the fighting side, Japan had scant trouble taking Germany's Chinese port of Kiao-chiao and Pacific islands, supplied some destroyers for troop convoys in the Mediterranean. Japan's total War dead: 300 men, mostly from illness. In money, Japan lent her Allies only 618,000.000 yen ($308,000.000). Britain repaid her share of this in 1919 to Japan out of monies borrowed from...
...black warriors came their women brandishing long knives to mutilate the wounded. Killed were two of the five Generals, 4,600 Italian officers and soldiers. Two thousand were wounded, 2,000 taken prisoner. General Baratieri was court-martialed, finally acquitted. Premier Crispi resigned. The peace treaty returned a fine slice of Eritrea to Ethiopia, and the whole business cost Italy some $90,000,000 and a dirty splotch on her military escutcheon...
Buyers who visit Manhattan are no longer hayseeds. Many are college graduates, nearly all read Vogue or Harper's Bazaar, keep up with Paris fashions. Their power over the trade is tremendous. They buy a good slice of the 53,000,000 dozen pairs of socks and stockings sold in the U. S. every six months. They account for perhaps 75% of all high-class women's clothes sold each season. Typical routine of a dress, hat and lingerie buyer from a department store in Atlanta...
...More than half Commercial Credit's total financing comes from the automobile business and the company estimates a profit of from $5 to $7 on each automobile transaction. It has official contracts with Chrysler and Packard. Last December Walter P. Chrysler arranged to add a slice of Commercial Credit's profits to his own by acquiring a substantial block of stock in that company...