Word: blunts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...frozen spray that weighted her rail to the water's edge and nearly sank her. So the visitor who views the "City of New York" today sees only a proud, old, ship, a member of a fast-vanishing generation of square-riggers that curled the sea away from their blunt bows and braved all the storms that nature brought forth...
...George May were a politician he would know that this is a poor year to talk to British voters of budget retrenchments. But he is no vote-monger; he is an able financier, an insurance man. In the report which his committee presented was the blunt warning: "The nation cannot go on borrowing to meet its current requirements." He urged a budget slash of $469,370,000. Labor's Big Five studied the May report sourly last week, looking for some economies which could be put in force without costing political necks...
...That blunt remark, truer than most statesmen liked to have known, not only frightened the British cabinet but frightened the great house of Rothschild, whose wealth is as much in Great Britain as on the continent. Through their Paris and their London houses the Rothschilds exerted every pressure to stop the French run on British gold, to push through the Franco-U. S. credit to the Bank of England. But if Britons needed any further knowledge of their country's precarious finances it came at Westminster when on the day that Parliament adjourned the Government's Economy Commission...
...would have about 5,500,000 cu. ft. of helium in her twelve gas cells (capacity 6,500,000 cu. ft.), more than enough to make her buoyant. Handling-lines manned by workmen would hold her fast to the concrete deck of the dock. Under the ship's blunt nose, with its shiny metal tip projecting 75 ft. overhead, was to be a flag-draped wooden platform, festooned with microphones, crowded with bigwigs of the Navy and of Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. There would sit Assistant Secretary of the Navy Ernest Lee Jahncke. Assistant Secretary for Aeronautics David Sinton Ingalls...
None of these conditions appeared in an official announcement last week, all were reported by British and U. S. newspapers. Even before the German emissaries left Berlin came a blunt statement from London...