Word: began
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have France and Britain begun buying bedroom suites for the Maginot Line. The something which has happened to the furniture industry is not war. The something is that 1939 began with subnormal inventories and an incipient home building boom. Last spring, with builders turning out nearly twice as many new homes as in 1938, furniture makers prepared for a rise. This fall, in spite of World War II, it blew...
Shortly after it was formed, Canadian Associated got from the Air Ministry a $10,000,000 educational order for two-motored Handley Page Hampden bombers. Before the war started, Canadian Associated, foreseeing business ahead, began constructing two assembly plants, in Toronto and Montreal. Last week, while fuselages, wings and landing gears were coming off the old assembly lines (to be set up later in the Toronto and Montreal plants), it was announced at Ottawa that negotiations were about complete for new British war orders to Canadian Associated. The first order was whispered to be for $20,000,000 worth...
...veteran of World War I (named after St. Anastasia, who had her tongue cut out for resisting the advances of Roman Emperor Valerian), Anastasie was revived by a French satirical weekly, Le Canard Enchaine, when World War II began. She presides over the crowded corridors of the Hotel Continental in the Rue de Castiglione, home of Jean Hippolyte Giraudoux's Ministry of Information...
When Leon Blum, onetime Premier of France, was attacked as an "unconscious" German agent by the reactionary Paris Matin, he wrote an answer for his own Socialist daily, Le Populaire, that began: "We don't see how censorship could prohibit us from making a legitimate reply." The rest was censored. Next week Editor Blum tried a trick that worked for Georges Clemenceau in War I: he sent copies of a censored article by mail to members of the Chamber of Deputies. They were seized by postal censors...
...Amid falling snow at midnight, out of a carriage bundled a mass of shawls and woolen scarfs one winter evening to ring the doorbell at the home of a Virginia Congressman. Inside the house a manservant began unwinding the bundle. Out of it came the Secretary of State, General Lewis Cass, born in 1782, seventy-nine years old, whimpering: 'Mr. Pryor, I have been hearing about secession for a long time-and I would not listen. But now I am frightened, sir, frightened!'"A month before Lincoln's inauguration the Confederacy was already under arms. And young...