Word: beste
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...just outside New York Harbor and proudly saluted 81 steel-gray warships in the mightiest display of naval strength ever to pass before a President. By then everybody but pacifists agreed that Claude Augustus Swanson, who had got his job for reasons of political expediency, was one of the best Secretaries of the Navy the U. S. ever...
...effects in the event of a war involving, say, Brazil and the Argentine. If the U.S. were to embargo the shipments of lethal weapons to these countries in the event of war, any interested European nation-say. Germany -could step in and subsidize the sort of victory that seemed best calculated to damage the Monroe Doctrine. The U. S. would thus find its neutrality policy contravening an even older policy and threatening the safety of the Panama Canal, which is vital to the two-ocean effectiveness of the U. S. fleet. For this reason the present bill provides exceptions virtually...
Campaign. With this in mind, the British press plugged hard last week for Mr. Churchill's inclusion in the Cabinet. The London Daily Telegraph & Morning Post, demanding the "best talent available" for a newly constructed Cabinet, wrote: "The plain fact is that when people speak of a reconstruction of the Cabinet, they are thinking first and foremost of the inclusion of Churchill, and it is quite certain that no step would more profoundly impress the Axis powers with the conviction that this country means business...
Last week the Department of Agriculture, having canvassed hog-farmers in its semiannual survey, announced its best guess for 1939: a six-year record of about 83,000,000. Three days after the estimate was announced, July lard futures fell to 5.7? per pound, a five-year low. Average hog prices in Chicago, which last month hit a five-year low ($6.02½ per cwt.) will not feel the 1939 crop until this fall when pigs farrowed this spring begin to go to slaughter. Chief beneficiaries of the booming pig population: the corn farmers, 40% of whose product will...
Last fortnight in Manhattan observers looked sharp at a promising cheap-book experiment. It was called "Pocket Books," consisted of ten former bestsellers, printed in full-size type on good paper, with washable paper binding. Priced at 25?, Pocket Books were the best-looking, most readable paperbound books so far. Promising also was the publisher. tall, dynamic, 44-year-old Robert Fair de Graff...