Word: axial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spoken as a result of explicit orders from Rome and under protest, for he has been considered a moderate. Optimistic Britons hoped last week that his recall indicated that Dictator Mussolini wants him in Rome to put the brakes on Foreign Minister Count Ciano's hell-for-leather axial policy. Certainly the Ministry of Justice in Fascist Italy today is not an important post...
...Asiatic and East African trade, suggest tolls based not on tonnage but on draught, abolition of the tax on passengers, 50% rebate for ships in ballast. But they are not worried enough to sponsor the Italian demands for an international commission to run the Canal. They want no Axial partner sitting over the life line, even in a director's chair...
...Great Britain will not make any further concessions to force," many a Frenchman chortled over a disquieting burlesque. Shrewd Henri de Kerillis, independent Rightist Deputy and one of the most influential Rightists opposed to Premier Daladier, wrote for his newspaper, L'Epoque, an imaginary telephone conversation between the Axial partners...
Many points of possible Franco-German friction were left hanging. Nothing whatever was said about German (or Axial) claims to French colonies (like Algeria), protectorates (like Tunis) or mandated territories (like Cameroon, formerly German). Nor was there any mention of the moribund but unrenounced treaty of mutual aid between France and Russia, always a sore point with Germany. However, three days later the Chamber of Deputies voted (315-to-241) confidence in Premier Daladier's foreign policies, of which the French-German "friendship"' declaration is a keystone. Strangely, it was from the Right, which for 15 years scorned...
...department of Mechanical Engineering is under the leadership of Professor Lionel S. Marks, assisted by Professor C. H. Berry. Professor Marks is widely recognized for his work on axial flow fans which have been brought to their present state of development largely through his efforts. In addition, he is the Editor in Chief of one of the most widely used reference works on mechanical engineering, and his investigations of the properties of saturated and super-heated steam, in collaboration with Professor Harvey Davis, formerly of the Graduate School of Engineering and now President of Stevens Institutes of Technology, resulted...