Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With warring nations bidding for her produce, Bucharest's stockmarket is booming as rarely before. Rumania's currency is controlled, but a Black Bourse operates full-blast and the Bucharest visitor with valuta (foreign exchange) in his pocket has no trouble at all in getting in touch with men quite willing to give him two or three times the "official" rate of exchange. (Example: officially there are 140 leis to $1; on the Black Bourse $1 will bring as high as 400.) The jewel mart is doing a land-office business with those Polish aristocrats who could bring...
...coal problem, the Army's answer is the Columbia River's Bonneville Dam. (But Administrator Paul Raver boasted last week at the White House that demand for Bonneville power is currently twice its output.) Instead of coal (used in blast furnaces for iron-making, in open hearth furnaces for steel), West Coast steel plants would depend on electric furnaces fueled by new Bonneville generators to process iron ore (or scrap) directly into steel. A January 1938 War Department publication noted that stainless and other special electrolitic steels for war purposes are "peculiarly adapted for production in the Pacific...
More explosively a reminder this week was a sudden blast against a Roosevelt third term from, of all people, John L. Lewis, chairman of the Congress of Industrial Organizations. At the same time Lewis indicated his personal 1940 choice would be Montana's Senator Burton Kendall Wheeler. To many this seemed a political "kiss of death" for Mr. Wheeler...
...sailors on City of Flint. Had the U. S. followed another policy it might have been placed in the position of evading its responsibility to them. Unexpected refusal of the Russians to permit U. S. access to the crew opened a hole as big as the blast of a torpedo in the Russian case. Newspaper dispatches called the case a U. S. diplomatic victory. There could scarcely be a victory over such a problem; the outcome appeared rather to be an instance in which a simple demand for candor, and an insistence on simple humanitarian considerations, exercised an astonishing force...
...feast & famine industry is heavy engineering construction. Ordinarily it does not get started until the rest of U. S. industry is already going full blast, until corporations need new factories and feel flush enough to buy them. This year U. S. industry started its war boom only in September, but last week it found that it had already carried the construction industry along with...