Word: abyss
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...breathless events Allen loses everything-his friend, his wife, his military honor. He suffers the martyrdom without which Catherine predicted nothing valuable for Ireland or for himself could be won. Outcast, Catherine accompanies him. Like her carrier pigeons, that fly always in one direction through the sky's abyss, the two are oriented by a single ideal, head instinctively toward its consummation, as the pigeons head towards home...
...pose then was to thumbscrew European nations into funding their War debts to the U. S. by denying them fresh credits until they had done so. When all funding was completed, the State Department continued to act as a fiscal censor with the idea of bridging the abyss between Big Business and U. S. foreign policy. While it contended that it did not pass on the security or merits of foreign loans, its method of reporting "no objection" diplomatically to them was often construed by bond salesmen as left-handed approval and used accordingly. Severest critic of this State Department...
...Will the governments of Europe again display the tremendous lack of will power which seems to paralyze them whenever they face this problem. , . .? The social and economic structure of Europe is steadily moving toward an abyss, and if it continues it will leave no alternative between repudiation of debts and chaos...
...President Hoover did not specify but it became known elsewhere that the Navy would take a $61,000,000 cut, the Army $44,000,000. But between the President's economy ($280,000,000) and the estimated deficit ($1,500,000,000) there still yawned an enormous fiscal abyss which only tax-upping seemed likely to fill...
Payment Deferred. William Marble did not know how he was going to make ends meet. He had a job in the foreign exchange department of a London bank and a wife and a daughter. Somehow the yawning abyss of inevitable paupery which gaped between his small salary and his household expenses grew wider & wider. Soon one of his creditors would complain to the bank and then nothing would be left for him but the Poor House. Into this unhappy scene, unexpectedly, comes a forgotten nephew from Australia. He is fairly prosperous, alone in the world. When Mr. Marble plunges instantly...