Word: soled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Quanto Esse." Rome was first to reply. The Italian Government had just taken four steps: 1) announced a 5% war loan so huge that it shook down Rome's stock market several points; 2) obtained from King Vittorio Emanuele III a decree making Benito Mussolini the sole Italian arbiter of Peace or War; 3) set up a board of Italian fighting service commanders to co-ordinate army, air force and fleet move ments; 4) placed 10.000,000 Italians of both sexes on call for a "practice mobilization"?really a nationwide Fascist pep rally?liable to be announced...
...Holy Symbol!" In menacing tones General Göring then read out three new decree laws. The first ended the clumsy arrangement under which the German tricolor and the Nazi swastika have been flown together as national flags. Henceforth Germany's sole flag is the swastika. "It is the anti-Jewish symbol of the world!" thundered General Göring amid deafening cheers. "A soldier from the front lines, Adolf Hitler, pulled us out of the dirt and brought us back to honor. . . . The swastika has become for us a holy symbol!" This, Germans considered, completely answered a Jewish judge in Manhattan...
Long ago the idea took root that Earth's face is squeezed and wrinkled by the contraction of cooling, but this is no longer regarded as the sole cause of unrest. A half-century ago. Dr. Watts recalled, Suess of Austria realized from geological evidence that the sea had washed back & forth on the continents in great longtime pulses, but he could not explain the underlying mechanism. After radioactivity was discovered, Joly of England and others hit on the concept of thermal pulsation: radioactivity in the solid, or nearly solid, sub-crust of Earth causes heat to be stored...
...partnership but a closed corporation. Capital will be provided by sale of $500,000 of common stock and $7,000,000 of preferred, a good deal of which will be bought by certain of the 17 remaining Morgan partners. But all the common stock, which carries the sole right to elect directors, will be held exclusively by the executives and employes of the new corporation, thus insuring its complete independence...
...aggressive, dapper hustler is Edward F. ("Ned") Hutton, board chairman of General Foods Corp. He founded the big New York Stock Exchange house that bears his name. Already rich in his own right, he got into the grocery business in 1920 by marrying the sole heir of the late Charles William Post, founder of Postum Cereal Co. And throughout the following decade the Huttons cut a wide swath through the society pages of the U. S. Press...