Word: armaments
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Their youngest son, Prince George, married chic Princess Marina of Greece. After George II was restored, British armament firms angling for Greek orders were delighted at commands from the Admiralty which sent into Greek waters several crack ships of the British Navy on what Athens newsorgans said was a "demonstration cruise." British armament salesmen then began to make Athens night life pop with champagne and throb with jazz as Greek officers were taken over the jumps of pleasure, with hopes high that they would sign on dotted lines the mornings after...
...announced to have called upon Greek War Minister General John Metaxas and sternly inquired how things were getting on-particularly the rival British and German bids to build for Greece four destroyers. Last week General Metaxas, who has since become Premier of Greece, threw $13,500,000 of armament orders to Germany...
...Armament limitations forced young Germans to develop motorless flying after the War. Product of one ill wind, gliding failed to profit from another. Depression curtailed plane companies' interest in the sport. U. S. manufacture of gliders soon ceased. Some enthusiasts bought their planes from Germany, others built them at home. Groups pooled their resources, formed more clubs, mainly because there were not enough ships to go around. Not 1,000,000 pilots but a bare 70, cream of the total U. S. crop of some 2,500, were at Elmira, N. Y. last week for the seventh annual meet...
...chief cause of the recent increase in Britain's income tax is the (1 huge new armament program, 2 lack of government income from tariffs due to the free trade policy, 3 depression in British industry, 4 failure of the Bank of England, 5 refusal of England to desert the gold standard...
...delegations of strikers and employers. Though his only legal standing was that of a deputy, M. Blum persuaded the employers to back down, give the workers a 10% raise, an annual week's vacation with pay, no more overtime. Of 70,000 strikers in firms busy on Government armament contracts, 60,000 this week went back to work. Delighted union officials threatened to shut down a new batch of factories...