Word: basely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Late one afternoon last week Adolf Hitler stepped up on a platform in City Hall Square at Wilhelmshaven. German naval base on the North Sea. A few inches in front of him was a bullet-proof glass shield†. Packed in the square beyond was an audience of 80,000 Heil-Hitlering Germans who had just attended the launching of the 35,000-ton battleship Von Tirpitz. Beyond them was a vast radio audience of millions in Germany, Britain, the U. S. waiting anxiously to hear a speech which had been widely heralded as the Führer...
Last week Japan jogged British and French memories with a note announcing occupation of the islands for "protection and regulation of lives, property and enterprises of Japanese nationals there." Actually, aside from small turtle fisheries and idle phosphate works, the islands are practically uninhabited. As a heavy shipping base they are useless, for the surrounding waters are a rocky, treacherous graveyard. Japan's real reason for the snatch was to get a good airplane and submarine base (the lagoons inside the reefs insure sheltered landing and mooring) within striking distance of dependencies of Britain (Singapore, 640 miles away; Sarawak...
Under the 1934 Silver-Purchase Law. designed ostensibly to broaden the monetary base, the U. S. Treasury has spent nearly $1,000,000,000 buying silver at the pegged prices (now 64? an ounce for domestic silver, 43? for foreign silver), a substantial subsidy which has stimulated silver production the world around, driven China off the silver standard. Author Leavens speculates on what would have happened if this law had never passed, concludes that silver miners would have had a hard time, that the price would have fallen sharply, but that eventually a new and satisfactory equilibrium would have been...
...Loyalist fleet steamed into the neutral French port of Bizerte, Tunisia, and was interned. In parade formation, still flying the Spanish Republic's red, gold & purple flag, three cruisers, eight destroyers and a number of lesser ships sailed in from revolt-ridden Cartagena, the fleet's base, 600 miles across the Mediterranean. Met by the French cruiser Dupleix and a squadron of French destroyers, the ships were inspected for sanitation, then, their ammunition removed, allowed to pass through the channel into Bizerte Lake. They will be held at the Sidi Abdallah arsenal at Bizerte and their...
...Defendant Dr. Humberd claimed that Robert had a pituitary tumor at the base of his brain, which "soured his attitude towards life" and prevented him from coordinating his muscles. He contrasted the stumbling, shuffling manner in which Robert maneuvered his 495 Ib. with the "easy grace" of Jack Earle, who, he said, was normal. He added that Robert had difficulty in swallowing, that his voice was weak and mumbling, that he had no feeling in certain parts of his body...