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...Nazi Germany, already arming most of the Balkan countries, offered potential enemy Yugoslavia a 200,000,000-mark credit to be applied on armament purchases over a ten-year period...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Swaps and Sales | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

Considering such facts, many a businessman began last week to wonder what had happened to the talked of armament boom. Yet the U. S. armament program now calls for expenditures of $1,665,000,000 in the next fiscal (June to June) year. The nonappearance of a boom in spite of these expenditures was partly explained by the following facts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Missing Boom | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

Married. Giuseppina Manchini, niece of Benito Mussolini; and Aviation Lieut. Renato Romanini, recently returned from bombing Spain; in Rome. To attend the wedding, Premier Mussolini postponed for one hour a Cabinet meeting called to hear his new armament program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 8, 1939 | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

...English mill at capacity will be able to turn out 600,000 tons of strip a year. But this is not enough to meet the armament demand. Last week England bought 100,000 tons of U. S. sheet steel for air-raid shelters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Japanese Strip | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

...Oxford Group of Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman, whose latest slogan is MRA ("Moral Re-Armament"), gathered in the U. S. to launch a big push during "Moral Re-Armament Week" (May 7-14). As ammunition they had piled up quantities of stickers, posters, milk-bottle tops (see cut)-they distributed 5,000,000 of these last year in England-all marked with "the four granite standards of Moral Re-Armament (absolute honesty, purity, unselfishness, love)," supporting the letters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Emblems | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

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