Word: suspects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Startled by the boldness of the move, the industry scarcely knew whether to cheer, scoff or suspect. Was the Department of Commerce about to hand out $7,000,000 contracts to favored manufacturers? Was it going to solicit R. F. C. money for production of the Vidal "flivver?" Would it prescribe its ideal plane design for manufacturers to follow? Director Vidal hastened to squelch all such notions. His Department would simply look for customers for a $700 airplane, drop its findings into the industry's lap, let the industry do the rest. He added: "If favorable response...
...CRANK IN THE CORNER-Christopher Bush - Morrow ($2). Ludovic Travers, traveling, encounters murder in his own compartment. Himself suspect, he investigates, shares honors with both Surete and Scotland Yard...
...author utilizes all the long-accepted conventions of the mystery story, but he does so with such ingenuity and creates such a welter of involved circumstances that we are almost entirely unaware of his technical trickery. After allowing us to suspect various people, the guilt is finally fastened on the person who is ostensibly least concerned with the characters in the book...
...slightly mollified, Wall Street is not. "The money-changers" are very unhappy about the whole thing. It goes against the natures of such simple idealists to be forced into the sceptic's position, nostrils dilated at the unpleasant aroma of a rat; but their hard business heads suspect that "managed currency" is just another slogan for that hardly defined but always suspicious phenomenon: inflation. The President is coming face to face with the sad fact that farmer and banker are betting on very different horses with no hope of a tie-race...
...effect, especially on men. She knocked Anson over with the first glance. Married to Lixlee and enjoying a completely pagan nightlife, he perked up considerably. One night, because he had to tear himself from her arms to go to a dying woman, they quarreled. Pretty soon he began to suspect that somebody else's hat was on the hatrack. His jealousy and shame drove him to drink. Lixlee was diabolically cunning, never let him get any proof, though apparently she took on any handy man, at any hour. If Authoress Canfield is to be believed, Lixlee was not only...