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...they were to withstand the stiff competition of the bootlegging industry, a more modern, more effective sales argument had to be found. The solution to the difficult merchandising apparently turned out to lie in intimidation, big and tough talk, and downright bullying. A ready market was created as soon as the winning smile was discarded for hard-boiled scowls and Chicago along. Most effective of all was the brandishing of a neat steel-blue automatic. No direct threats are known to have been made, but insinuations of what had happened to other undergraduates who had crossed the paths of these...
...Legge and Secretary Hyde insisted that private speculators were largely responsible for last week's wheat break, other economic reasons were obviously responsible: 1) an extraordinary world wheat surplus, with a consequent lack of foreign demand; 2) a "holding policy" promoted by the Farm Board which could not withstand a falling market; 3) falling due of farm taxes and mortgage payments requiring cash...
...object : to attack Dictator Benito Mussolini with humor, malice, intimate information, startling lies, as he has seldom before been attacked. Fascist officials have sharp orders to apprehend and silence Loud Speaker's perpetrators without delay or mercy, for ridicule is the one weapon no dictatorship can long withstand. Roman gossips, well aware of the breach over edu cation and other matters between Il Dnce and Pius XI, have slyly but of course quite erroneously suggested that Loud Speaker emanates from the same sanctified publishing plant as L'Osservatore Romano...
...poor to be an important market for our manufactured goods. . . . With the Philippines we are in a weaker military position than we should be without them. Our naval forces in the Asiatic waters could be swept off the seas by the Japanese. . . . Our military forces could not withstand a determined attack...
...country's prosperity is almost entirely dependent on coffee. Mountains of brown beans in Brazilian coffee warehouses, the certainty that the monopolistically raised price of coffee could not long withstand overproduction, caused the coffee market to crack fortnight ago (TIME...