Word: worsteds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Italy's tyrants, suggests Spivak, are clowns, its people poltroons. Benito Mussolini has the worst economic situation in Europe and the least rebellion to contend with. Nevertheless, though every Fascist officer says, "There are no strikes in Italy," Spivak dug out records of 153 illegal strikes under Fascism. The humblest Italian is paralyzed with fear by the secret police ("The Bats") headed by an imitation Mussolini. Another imitation Mussolini, handsome President Tullio Cianetti of the Confederation of Labor, conceded that "Fascism has not abolished the class struggle or class distinctions." Mussolini, says Spivak, has smashed the middle classes, degraded...
...earth"); in India, the Taj Mahal ("I would just like to put a glass over it I feel I must cover it over"). And she was not slow to compare national customs, "the American English they are nauty the Scotch very nauty but the French are really bad the worst at Nice I didnt want to believe my eyes." Yet she was never really shocked by the nautiness of man: "I like to stay long enough to flirt in each country to test the man of each place is what I like during . . . but I am auful foxie." What adventures...
...that it matters, for after all the lives were lost, but just as a question of justice. TIME, April 6, under Transport, "Worst & First," claims that the courtesies of the Mexican pilot caused the terrible accident. According to official reports, it was the U. S. technical expert who was handling the plane when the accident happened...
...important to differentiate sharply between the general principle of taxation which lies behind it, and the particular form and manner in which it is drawn up. The first remains excellent; the second appears to justify the statement of the New York Times that it is one of the worst tax bills in the history of the House...
...worry J. & L. because it makes no heavy rails. However, 70% of its capacity is in other heavy steel products, such as pipes, mer chant bars and structural shapes. Though J. & L.'s plants are the envy of the industry, this preponderance of heavy products, which slumped worst in Depression, was what inspired last week's bond issues. A big modern strip-sheet mill will help balance its output...