Word: amounts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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France stands at the very top. She stands at the top in the amount her government spends on armaments; at the top in the amount of arms she exports to other nations, at the top also by virtue of the billion francs she has spent to build a military Chinese wall of forts, many of them underground, along her eastern boundaries. But these mere quantitative details do not reveal the true significance of her position...
Much larger fry is England where the firm of Vickers-Armstrongs is the brightest star in the armament firmament. The annual bills of Vickers-Armstrongs to nations for armaments purchased quite possibly amount to $100,000,000. For England's powerful position as one of the greatest exporters of the materials of war in the world, the bulk of the credit goes to Vickers-Armstrongs. It makes other things than armaments, true enough; such unwarlike products as sewing machines and golf clubs come from its factories. But its chairman, General the Hon. Sir Herbert Lawrence, G. C. B., onetime Chief...
...Herbert Lawrence, besides being a director of the Bank of Rumania, is also a director of the Sun Insurance Office, Ltd., with which Vickers-Armstrongs had a curious agreement that "if the profits (of Vickers) in any year during the five years ending December 31, 1932, do not amount to $900,000, then a contribution not exceeding $200,000 will be made in each year." Sir Otto Niemeyer, the infant phenomenon of British finance who first entered His Majesty's Treasury at the age of twenty-three, is another Vickers director; he is, addition, an officer of the Bank...
...sight to relieve the skipper are Fred Allan and Drib Braggiotti. Allan has pitched victories against Cornell and Pennsylvania. Both games were loosely handled. In both Allan got into holes, but showed the ability to pull himself out again. Braggiotti, on the other hand, in the small amount he has been used, has shown a deliberate, steady style of work. He has yet to be fully tried and has never started a League game. These three men are of vital importance if the Crimson is to emerge at the top of the League. Just how good Harvard's changes...
...Memorial Society last night launched a drive in the Yard dormitories, in which every Freshman will be interviewed personally by a member of the society. It was decided at a meeting last night to ask no money from the commuters unless the yard donations fail to produce the desired amount, which has not as yet been ascertained...