Word: formulas
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Since the murder last year of Bolivia's dictator Colonel German Busch, who tried to nationalize tin exports, Bolivia's freelance politicos have followed the Patino formula of playing off the U. S. against Germany. They have made it a three-cushion game by also intriguing with the British, who, to preserve their profitable smelting monopoly, would rather not see Bolivian ore go direct to the U. S. But while Patino was in Spain, his old enemy and the No. 2 Bolivian tin miner, Mauricio Hochschild, took sides. Hochschild went to the U. S. last winter, contracted with...
...setups compared with the job of introducing the new order to the stubborn Frenchmen of devastated Lorraine. For this reason Hitler entrusted the task to his foremost Anschluss professional, Gauleiter Josef Bürckel who not only engineered the Anschluss of the Saar, but also originated the Nazi annexation formula so successfully employed in Austria. A hefty, beetle-browed Rhinelander dubbed the "Red Gauleiter'' because he has constantly stressed Socialism more than Nationalism, Bürckel informed sullen Lorraine peasants last week that the "Führer principle" had been introduced along with a "new order which...
...with acid), then coated in a chemical bath and heated. Depending on the degree of baking, the coated steel turns black, gold, bronze, purple, blue, red or green, the color becoming an integral part of the surface. Oscar Bach will not reveal the chemicals in the coating bath. "The formula," says he, "is so simple I'm almost ashamed of it." The Bachite process is used in the building industry for exteriors and decorations. A recent example is the flashy Bach-designed decoration of Manhattan's Airlines Terminal Building...
When The Doltons Rode (Universal), by the same studio and director (George Marshall) who made Destry Rides Again, attempts to repeat that highly successful picture's formula of saddling a horse opera with a fresh script, riding hell-for-leather with a good cast. When elegant Kay Francis is discovered perched on a corral, counting steers and fluttering her false eyelashes at buckish Randolph Scott, the parallel with the picture which revivified Marlene Dietrich with a draft of Western air is unmistakable...
...women there was the old German formula of Kinder, Kirche, Kuche (Children, Church, Kitchen). "What is ruining France," wrote Le Figaro, in warning women to retire from professions and to have bigger families, "is the number of childless couples who live a selfish life appropriating two incomes from salaried positions...