Word: axes
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...other directors of these very same firms signed the pro-tariff "Banker's Manifesto" which created such a rumpus just two months ago (TIME, July 14). Inescapable conclusion: Britain's bankers, famed as the most clannish in the world, have found an issue which splits like an axe even their own offices...
Thomas St. John Gaffney, onetime U. S. Consul-General in Berlin, returning from a visit with Wilhelm Hohenzollern at Doorn, deflated the legend that the ex-Kaiser continually chops wood for exercise; explained that, since his withered left arm hampers his axe-work, "what the Kaiser does is take the pieces of wood in his right hand and toss them with unerring accuracy into the barn loft...
...quarrelsome wenches proved last week on the old Toluca road near Mexico City whether the rope is mightier than the axe...
...Axe-wench Melquiades Luna rushed with flashing machete upon Rope-wench Dorotea Mancilla who sat astride a prancing pinto pony. As the axe swung the pony pivoted and the lasso hissed. Caught and pinioned by the terrible rope, Axe-wench Melquiades was dragged over pebbly ground 150 ft., screaming for mercy. Neighbors said that shrewd Rope-wench Dorotea had challenged her rival to their curious duel "about something that has kept them angry at each other for the last two years...
...gross comes from golf shafts, fishing rods, snowshoes, skis; another 5% from railway appliances like joint shims and rail anchors. Yet its chief income is from farm tools, in which it handles 60% of the U. S. trade. Last week this business was expanded when a merger with Kelley Axe & Tool Co. of Charleston, W. Va., and Skelton Shovel Co. of Dunkirk, N. Y., was proposed. American Fork & Hoe is a typical large, closely held company. Its assets are near $10.000,000. Its earnings have never been disclosed to a curious public. President and general manager of the company...