Word: takings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rate, if either Joseph Stalin or Adolf Hitler-who have led their countrymen to believe that the other is the devil unchained (but not so deliberately recently)-needed any sales points to make the deal palatable at home, they were available. General belief was that they would scarcely take the trouble. They did not even bother to reveal who had undertaken the preliminaries to the greatest and quietest diplomatic about-face in modern European history...
...blue all over last week about their position on the Far Eastern Front of the War of Nerves. The Japanese, having stripped Far Eastern Britons of clothes and Face (Oriental for respectability), moved troops into position along the border of Hong Kong territory to be ready, if necessary, to take lives as well...
...Kinloch of the International Settlement police killed two Japanese-controlled Chinese policemen and wounded six others with a submachine gun, when they attacked him from the rear and, according to his claim, without provocation. Said the Japanese Embassy, after an emergency meeting of Army and Navy officers: "We take a grave view of this affair." Foreigners wondered if Japan would consider it provocation enough once and for all to settle the Settlement...
...Michael O'Daniel, son of Texas' Governor Wilbert Lee ("Pass the Biscuits, Pappy") O'Daniel, did not wait for a contest, went to Hollywood last fortnight, landed a Paramount contract (TIME, Aug. 14). His Pappy has still not decided whether to let him take...
...plantations, he must gamble more heavily than his competitors on war or peace as well as recovery or depression when he goes to market. In the spring of 1937, when commodity prices threatened to run away, Goodyear bought heavily, and when Depression II got under way, Goodyear had to take a $10,343,000 loss-in spite of which Goodyear had enough operating profit left over...