Word: turkishly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under a new income tax law signed by the President, "Turkish wage earners become the most heavily taxed in the world." according to Istanbul papers. Every Turk, no matter how minute his income, must pay at least 30% to the State. Richest Turks will get off easier than richest Englishmen who are taxed out of half their income. In Turkey, under the new law. "incomes over $300 per month shall be taxed...
Looking like Peck's bad boy, Venezuelan General Nogales stands in full Turkish uniform in the frontispiece of his book to give readers a foretaste of mischief to come. It comes: should the supply run short in one hemisphere there is bound to be plenty in the other. The doughty general craves trouble as a cat craves fish, can nose it from afar. Do or die is no mere shibboleth to him, but sober truth. "For certain men not to do is to die, to die a spiritual and very disagreeable death. From such a death I have been...
...Istanbul 20,000 people shuffled into the great Byzantine Mosque of Santa Sophia on Ramadan's "Night of Power" to hear the first reading of the Koran, not in Arabic language of Mohammed, but in vulgar Turkish. The blood of the pious curdled. Many of the gaping crowd flouted tradition by wearing shoes. Photographers added to the sacrilege by setting off flashes. Although the Koran was for the first time intelligible to laymen, most of the crowd seemed under the impression that they were seeing a theatrical spectacle...
...Curtiss-built military planes. At Sofia, Belgrade, Bucharest, Istanbul, Prague, Berlin, etc. they made demonstration nights, talked serious business with chiefs of state, army leaders, ministers of transportation. Last week Curtiss-Wright Corp. announced one of the fruits of Salesman Doolittle's roadwork: a contract with the Turkish Government to survey and direct the building of airways and airports, build and operate factories for construction of Curtiss-Wright planes...
High Pressure belongs more or less to this last category, except that in its attitude toward the industry of stock promotion it is slightly less informative than farcical. Turkish baths restore William Powell, discovered drunk in a ginmill, to a condition in which he is fit to undertake the organization of a campaign to sell stock in a company for making rubber out of sewage. Vastly successful at this enterprise, he is presently discomforted to learn that the inventor, upon whose formulas the company's production plans depend, has disappeared. He is even more discomforted when the inventor reappears...