Word: tensed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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To Atholl rallied the land-poor Duke of Montrose who keeps plaintively trying to sell his tens of thousands of Scottish acres and takes boarders at his Buchanan Castle for eight guineas ($43) per week.
Nuremberg. Precariously clinging to the neck of the dragon he has created, little Adolf Hitler saw the world more unified against Germany than at any time since 1918, and preparing to do something about it. It was time for Hitlerism to pull its horns in once more, and that Hand...
. . . Mr. & Mrs. M. J. Divine are highly respected by tens of thousands and may I inform you that something like seven million people have come under his influence. . . .
1) Bonds. The firm as a wholesaler of securities floats bond issues through syndicates. Because of its prestige it gets the pick of the business, the securities which are easiest to sell, of foreign governments (of England and Germany, for example), of great corporations without number. The margin of profit...
J. P. Morgan & Co.'s plump, bespectacled office manager, Leonard A. Keyes, climbs on the stand with a big leather-backed ledger in his arms. From it he reads the story of how Banker Mitchell's $30,000,000 fortune was wiped out. On a wild stockmarket day...