Word: austria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...based on estimated receipts of ?764,275,000, Mother Britain is now spending nearly one-sixth of her current tax revenue on seeing her needy through. ¶Voted with maximum grumbling from all parties a loan of 100,000,000 schillings ($14,000,000) to the Government of Austria. "Throwing good money after bad, that's what we're doing!" cried Conservative Sir Arthur Samuel, M. P., despite a firm reminder from Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain, also Conservative, that the 100,000,000 schillings are only Britain's share of the Five-Power loan pledged...
...enthusiast, had the idea that one reason it was not better appreciated was the fact that the public generally ignored the color and therefore had no knowledge of the real appearance of the work. He decided to make extensive sketches in color of modern buildings in Germany, Austria, Holland and Scandinavia...
...following nations will be represented in the Assembly: Abyssinia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, China, Czecho-Siovakia, Denmark, England, Finland, France, Germany, India, Irish Free State, Japan, Russia, Siam, Switzerland...
Indignant Viennese newspapers stressed what seemed to them the piteous fact that the hunger-driven Austrian recruits will receive for the next twelve years only a minute wage, plus bed & board. The Treaty of St. Germain, they added bitterly, deprived Austria of all seaports and consequently of her Navy, reduced her Army to 30,000 men (including officers) and limited her "heavier armaments" to 450 machine guns, 60 trench mortars and 90 field guns & howitzers. Each Austrian soldier is permitted to have a gun, but the nation's stock of bullets is limited...
...This oil may mean the salvation of our poor Austria!" cried Professor Julius Suida of Vienna Technical College. "I estimate that this new oil supply will be worth more to the State than the $150,000,000 which was lost in the crash of the Kreditanstalt" (TIME, June...