Word: ters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...During most of the night before his death, Salesman Bat'a worked over the terms of a shoe contract he hoped to close in Switzerland. Rising at 5 a. m. he fumed at the fog & mist which made a take-off risky. Twice the pilot refused his mas ter's order to start. Finally at 6:30 a. m. Bat'a said, "We must start...
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...What are the Hitlerites but human dust?" asked Leon Trotsky in a manifesto to German Reds. "Their vain chat ter about 'Social Fascism' . . . their empty imitation of real Fascism . . . should fill every German Communist with contempt...
...source of the capital behind him. Under his rule, Manufactur ers stock has regained high reputation, though the bank has not yet recovered the deposits it lost in 1930. Up $26,000,000 since Mr. Gibson took charge, deposits are still down $153.000,000 from the quar ter before Bank of U. S. failed. In July Banker Gibson began a series of mergers and liquidations by Manufacturers. Two banks it took to itself by mergers (Midwood Trust of Brooklyn and Brooklyn National Bank of New York). Three (Midtown Bank, Lebanon National Bank, Bryant Park Bank) it held...
...never let the weight of his thought conquer his fondness of imagery. ''The ox of today." he said, "aspires to no more than did the ox when man first yoked him. The sea gull of the English Channel, who poises him self above the swift steamer, wants no bet ter food or lodging than the gulls who circled round as the keels of Caesar's galleys first grated on an English beach...