Word: successful
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...Hoover's Federal Farm Board in the autumn of 1929, resulted in the Government's acquiring several millions of bales of cotton at a price at which cotton has never sold since.- The second, at io/ a Ib., made by the New Deal in 1933, was a success because the price climbed to 12?; and the Government could get out. The third of 12? made last year was followed by a slump of cotton prices to 117? with the result that farmers dumped their surplus on the Government which today is sunk with some 5,000,000 bales...
About 15 miles from Salzburg in Bavaria is Berchtesgaden, Adolf Hitler's summer snuggery. Last year the Realmleader tried, with an eminent lack of success, to sabotage the Salzburg music festival by keeping German artists and German tourists from attending (TIME, Sept. 3). This year Herr Hitler had even more cause to think bitterly of the town across the border. Salzburg hotels were full to overflowing, 10,000 foreign visitors having arrived as the music season got under way early in August. Day after day, Tomaselli's and the Café Bazar were as international as the Place...
...especially troublesome to the Freshman of limited means at Harvard unless he is sufficiently brilliant to obtain some form of University aid. Statistics show that new men should not expect to earn more than $300 by part time work during the school year or the chance of academic success is drastically endangered...
Adolf Hitler's success thus far in regaining Germany's "national honor, freedom and armaments," Dr. Schacht called "stupendous," and most German businessmen would thoroughly agree. These gains, the Reichsbank President warned, are threatened by Nazis whose actions are "like sand in a machine...
...portrayals of women of the world, are those which make her portrayal of a girl whom she really understands her masterpiece to date. The supremely difficult feat of characterizing a poseuse so as to mock the poses without mocking the person behind them she carries off with success. This is best gauged by the way audiences wriggle while watching an episode like the one in which, caught by her admirer running up the steps of a business school where she contemplates taking a course, Alice archly explains that she was going in to hire a secretary for her father...