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...practical, patient Czechoslovaks have undergone occupation of one kind or another ever since Munich. Last week they gladly heard that the end was near. Mild-mannered, thin-faced Premier Zdenek Fierlinger announced that both Russia and the U.S. had agreed to withdraw their soldiers. In Washington the State Department said that both armies would leave...
Much for Little. On top of this the market was "thin," i.e., it needed a comparatively small number of buyers to send a stock up. This was partly due to the Federal Reserve Board boost in margin requirements in July. By putting stock trading close to a cash basis, it cut down the number of day-to-day traders, thus reduced the stock in circulation. Example : in one day, the purchase of 800 of Du Pont's outstanding 11,000,000 shares sent the stock...
When she minced into Pearl Harbor, just in time to see war break over Hawaii, the destroyer Patterson was only four years old and one of the best. A survivor of Dec. 7's disaster, she became one of the thin line of U.S. warships left to stop the Jap fleet in the Pacific. Lean as an alley cat, "Pat" stalked off to westward...
...present (17th) Duke of Alba has tried all his life to make friends instead of enemies, has largely succeeded. His name is Jacobo Maria del Pilar Carlos Manuel Fitz-James Stuart, and he is distantly related to Winston Churchill.* Last week the thin-faced, scholarly, impassive Duke made some more friends by resigning his post in London as Francisco Franco's Ambassador. The Franco regime, he said, was "harmful to the best interests of Spain...
...Braque's Interior, one of the hits of the Autumn Salon, was a solemn rectangle of silence in the general, uproar of the show. Painted almost entirely in black and grey, with a few dabs of orange, its solid, weighty strength made some of the gayer pictures look thin and forced. Braque has been living in unapproachable solitude for the past few years...