Word: americanize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will serve no alcoholics in his London embassy: "I never made it a practice to serve liquor in my home in the States, and see no reason to change now." Other U. S. diplomats abroad wondered what all the excitement was about. Alcoholics are never served in the American Embassy at Oslo or Copenhagen, while most of the U. S. diplomats in the Balkans are teetotalers...
...meeting even the Young Plan payments rests largely on further loans from the U. S. Berlin businessmen wrung their hands over the Stresemann "colony" speech. One of them said: "I hope Dr. Stresemann's words will not be interpreted to.mean Germany is opposed to the coming here of American capital. That would be calamitous...
...have not the slightest reason to agree with the oft-heard wail that all Europe will ultimately become an American colony. Nothing lies farther from the wish of the American people than to take from the European his responsibility for the conduct of his own industry. The American wishes in his international dealings and business acts to deal with independent persons and peoples who are conscious of their own responsibility. He does not wish to deal with slaves...
Large scale customers for the products of Curtiss-Wright Corp. will be the great transport companies which Mr. Hoyt and Mr. Keys more or less dominate: Aviation Corp. of the Americas (Pan-American Airways), National Air Transport, Transcontinental Air Transport, Pitcairn Aviation, Inc.* Upon sailing for Europe last week Mr. Keys was meticulous in stating that these transport companies would not buy their equipment exclusively from their allied manufacturers...
...Last month Mr. Keys bought Pitcairn Aviation mail-carrying unit of Harold F. Pitcairn's group. Last week Mr. Keys sold Pitcairn Aviation to North American Aviation, holding company of which he is president...