Word: backed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cream of the jest to these taxpayers was that, as is customary, they will receive not only their money back but interest on it at 6%-a lot bigger return than they could have got if they had invested in bonds...
...squadrons of heavy bombers followed the path of the first. By noon some 150 English warplanes, carrying 400 men, were hovering over France; heavy bombers had passed the steel mills of Bordeaux, toward which other squadrons were speeding; medium bombers had circled Orleans, passed Le Mans on their way back to Cherbourg and home. At 2 p. m. the first squadrons of Blenheims and Wellingtons were at their airports; five minutes later the lighter bombers landed...
...signed in 1919, were transferred from Austrian to Italian sovereignty. Last week the Fascists and the Nazis, having long soft-pedaled this delicate situation, decided to solve it for once and for all. The method they chose was the hard way-a transfer of the population, not the territory, back to Greater Germany...
Forsaken or not, the stubborn Tyrolese still resisted Italianization, and Benito Mussolini must have reluctantly concluded that these Germans would always be Germans. As for the Führer, he was short of labor at home, particularly of farm labor, and would welcome the agricultural Tyrolese back. Last week the following joint agreement on the South Tyrol problem was suddenly sprung...
...Some 8,000 Germans (as distinguished from Tyrolese) in the district were allowed three months to get back to the Reich...