Word: end
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When this fend is carried to the younger generation, the fun really begins. These French youngsters make the Dead End Kids look like a bunch of sissies. They guzzle wine, swear colorfully, completely befuddle their naive schoolmaster, and stage a roaring battle with their bare buttocks billowing in the breeze a clever device to keep their enemies from licking the pants off them. Besides this, they're Latins even in their diapers, and they love magnificently. For a time it seems as if a watery romance between the schoolmarm of one town and the mayor of the other is going...
...END OF ECONOMIC MAN-Peter F. Drucker-John...
...Wrote a plan for restoring U. S. prosperity. Its prime points: reduction of Government regulation of industry to a reasonable basis; an end of Government pump-priming because it is a failure; recognition of the profit motive as an incentive to produce; a return to economy in Government expenditures; amendment of the National Labor Relations Act "to guarantee to employes real freedom in the selection of their representatives"; modification of the Securities Acts to encourage new capital investment...
...Allison plant is getting into production on its high-powered, liquid-cooled engines to go into new Army pursuit ships. By the middle of the summer the production of the three plants in military engines may well hit a total of close to 2,000 a month, end fears which Army and Navy men entertained that engine production might become a bottleneck in U. S. armament...
Illman prevailed in his match by dint of his superior knowledge and opportunist tactics, and just edged the more muscular Loring after coming from behind, with all odds again him, at the end of four minutes of wrestling...