Word: type
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Nazi Abetz, whose wife is a Frenchwoman, ignored conservatives of the Laval-Pétain type, concentrated on such totalitarian-minded Leftists as Gaston Bergery, who launched the phrase "200 families." whose wife is a daughter of Bolshevik Leonid Krassin. Last week Abetz was rumored in Vichy to be the coming strong man of France. That Adolf Hitler would not mind seeing the Pétain Government overthrown was evident when the Berlin radio in a series of broadcasts characterized the men of Vichy as "hyenas tearing at the carcass of dead France," as "buzzards who eat one of their...
...never to become identified with any one government, or type of government. The projection of this policy under recent conditions has led the Vatican into steps not foreseen by the democracies...
...founded the Bankers' Magazine, Mrs. Woodruff was a schoolteacher for 14 years, bought a farm and sponsored a back-to-the-soil movement in Huntington, L. I. A lecturer on trade unions and women's rights, she has visited Soviet Russia five times to study "the new type of woman...
About five years ago Sir William Firth, handsome kinetic chairman of Richard Thomas & Co., Ltd., ?23,000,000 British steel firm, decided that Britain should have at least one modern continuous strip rolling mill, U. S. type. He got his mill (at Ebbw Vale, South Wales), but in financing it he lost control of Richard Thomas & Co. First his own bank, Lloyds, refused a loan, called in an overdraft, nearly strangled Thomas & Co. with a working-capital shortage. The Bank of England agreed to make the loan, but extracted an issue of prior-rights stock and put some...
Kahn had never done one, but "would try." Brother Julius Kahn (later president of Truscon Steel, vice president of Republic) had invented an improved type of steel-reinforced concrete. The Packard fac tory became the first reinforced concrete and steel sash factory in the U. S. It also had window area of revolutionary proportions and a layout planned for efficient production. With this pioneering start, Kahn became the industry's No. 1 architect-engineer, has ever since designed most of Ford's, Chrysler's, General Motors' plants...