Word: britain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last war, invented a wireless control gear for torpedoes. After some scientific snickers at death rays and bacteriological bombs, Professor Low growled: "Whether Hitler has any horrors or not to produce at the moment-and I am of the opinion he has not-I can truthfully say that if Britain so desired she could at this very moment out-horror Hitler...
Lately, Author MacDonnell has gained notice for himself (and bank) by a blank-verse stand against isolation: "For twelve months past we have called Great Britain coward, traitor, dolt, because she did not jump into a war. We chalked her down a third-rate power, we pilloried appeasement, we covered her with lavish scorn-too old and dead to fight; and when at last she draws the sword, we turn our backs...
...British blockade has cut off the wind of Nazi Germany's Latin American trade, putting the U. S.'s No. 1 competitor in this hemisphere out of the market. Britain still shops heavily in the Latin American market for war and food supplies, but is too thoroughly occupied by war to maintain her exports. France is in the same boat, and jittery Italy does not yet know where she stands...
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...Bolivia, which did a $28,956,000 trade with Britain in 1937 (1938 figures unavailable), looked for a U. S. market for her hides, horns, cocoa in order to build up a credit balance to buy U. S. goods...