Word: bettered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government subsidy) to supply 48,000 Ibs. of corned beef at less than 16?^ per lb., nearly 8? under the nearest U. S. bidder, 14? under after deduction of 6? duty. To correspondents Mr. Roosevelt declared that he did not know why South American corned beef was "infinitely better" than that from the U. S. prairies, unless foreign cows are just naturally better tasting than U. S. cows.f If correspondents did not believe him, he said, let them try a can of Argentine beef on their next camping trip...
Medical collaboration having fared better than other forms of international amity, Germans and Frenchmen, Britons and Italians, hobnobbed in great goodwill at their tenth Congress. Jittery Poland's, Estonia's and Yugoslavia's doctors at the last moment were ordered to stay home. But so many bigwigs were allowed to attend that the delegates told each other there could be no war while they were away from their armies. In beribboned and bemedaled uniforms, they made the staid lobby of the Willard Hotel gay. They also made excellent propaganda for peace. To experts' previews...
...Those who every morning, perhaps with field glasses reversed, spy for a possible crack or fracture in the Axis, will now be confused and humiliated. Nobody had better nurture ridiculous and superstitious illusions...
...rules over the mouth of the Vistula rules over Poland better than the King of Poland himself...
...whole Germany's agricultural situation is no better and no worse than it was in 1914. But one thing has changed very much for the worse: the fuel oil needs for a modern mechanized army and air service. In the event of a major war Germany will need 15 to 20 million tons of oil a year. The entire annual yield of the nearby Rumanian fields, assuming Germany could and would quickly take Rumania through Hungary, is short of 7,000,-ooo tons and synthetic production in Germany can hardly exceed a million tons. Furthermore, number one truism...