Word: falling
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Last fall, when the Chinese dollar began the long skid that carried it below 7?, it looked as if Japan had won the currency war. But by last month, although inflation swept Chungking (private chauffeurs, getting $1,000 a month, earned as much as Cabinet Ministers), the Chinese dollar still looked to peasants like a last struggling agent of order amid surrounding economic anarchy-100 Chinese dollars would buy 125 Japanese-backed Federal Reserve notes; one U. S. dollar, officially buying $4.30 in Japanese Federal Reserve notes, would actually buy $17.50 in that currency...
...asked what he knew about the peace negotiations. London was naturally anxious. If peace were concluded, Germany's northern flank would be secure, the southern made more secure. The important Scandinavian neutrals-"Norway points like a pistol at the heart of England," wrote Leslie Hore-Belisha recently -would fall deep into Russo-German influence...
...Will the coming of spring bring a great offensive on the Western Front?" Last week, as the first third of the dread month of March slipped away, and the curtain was poised for a fall on the whole northern theatre of the war, this question was asked and answered by the man whose own opinion was more likely than any other outsider's to influence High Commands and War Offices-Captain Basil Henry Liddell Hart...
...some 16,000,000 U. S. citizens, cribbage is still just the right mental exercise for a long winter evening. Every year more & more cribbage boards come down from U. S. attics, more & more families fall under its spell. Long associated with fire stations, country stores and farmers' kitchens, cribbage has lately crawled into business offices and church vestries. Last year a National Cribbage Association was organized, consolidating the dozens of leagues (mostly in the Midwest) that have sprung up, like bowling leagues, to advertise and fraternize business firms and clubs...
...fall of 1938 The Fifth Column appeared in book form, won critical acclaim. Producers again started dickering; to one of them according to Broadwayfarer Leonard Lyons, Hemingway angrily replied: "Fifth Column, sixth draft, seventh producer, eighth refusal." Soon after, he agreed to let Hollywood Writer Benjamin Glazer rewrite the play. Last December the Theatre Guild announced that it would produce the play, with Franchot Tone as lead. Last week (with the financial assistance of Billy Rose) The Fifth Column opened at last on Broadway...