Word: buts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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*Not until December 1917 was the Allied Maritime Transport Council set up, and it did not start functioning until March 1918. Subordinate to it were a score of committees on food, munitions, raw materials. But all these bodies were purely advisory, had no authority to enforce their decisions.
Last week French Finance Minister Paul Reynaud presented his first wartime budget. It was for a year and it was balanced all right, but the joker in it was that it covered only civil and not military costs. These were huge enough-79,000,000,000 francs ($1,746,000...
London's "City" viewed this Keynes Plan askance as "totalitarianism." The Times feared it would decrease production of consumer goods at a time when unemployment is still high, but said the plan "deserves the most serious examination." To Tommy in the trenches, it sounded fine.
Floating mines are not outlawed by international convention. But, like anchored mines after they break loose, their danger period is supposed to be limited to one hour. A small submarine can carry 20 mines, can plant them through specially constructed mine tubes while submerged if necessary. Larger craft have special...
>The British India steamer Sirdhana (7,745 tons) blew up last week as it left Singapore harbor. William ("The Great") Nicola, U. S. magician, lost tons of paraphernalia but he, his wife & troupe were saved. A gang of 137 Chinese deportees had to be turned loose from their prison in...