Word: leveling
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...official exchange value of the reichmark in terms of dinars, added quotas of corn, copper and lead to replace the wheat Yugoslavia cannot deliver because of a disastrous harvest, and 600,000 tons of iron ore a year to bring the German supply up to the pre-air-raid level. Promised reward: an economic role in the New Order. The Yugoslav Government finally signed a watered-down economic agreement with the Reich and Foreign Minister Dr. Aleksandar Cincar-Markovitch announced that he was willing to collaborate economically and politically with the Axis. It was not collaboration but submission that...
Said he: "Your publishers . . . have editorialized a lot about dictatorship. I wish they would tell me why there should be an actual dictatorship of the policy of their papers by the financial interests. . . . Their editorials ... are not 'on the level.' They should clean their own house before they talk about other forms of dictatorship." Asked a sly reporter: "Should [the press] be controlled by the Government?" Said Democrat Flynn hastily: "No. Absolutely...
...arrived in Wall Street with a rifle under his arm, was joshed by friends: "Harry's loaded for wolves." The rifle was actually taken along for repair, but Sportsman Bauer sold the bonds for a then record 3¾%- the first bonds to breach the 4% interest level for utilities...
...home in Pasadena (via New Orleans because over-mountain trips sicken his wife). He was happy. Well over 90% of his bonds are sold; underwriters expect to have empty shelves by week's end. Better still, he had once more outmaneuvered the "Big Five," set a new low level for high-grade utility bonds...
...regard to what was said recently about programming, it occurs to me that a good deal could still be said, especially on a more concrete level. In that other column I suggested, somewhat arbitrarily, three obligations, of a conductor, or any program-maker: obligations to the public, to composers living land dead, and to themselves. Getting off this plane of theoretical criticism I should like to mention what seem to me the ills of the modern concert program...