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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Except by comparison with other industries the utilities have no reason to be cocky about a 20% sales growth since 1929. Between 1922 and 1929 they grew...
...have often wondered why the Germans did not make greater efforts to reduce our strength in capital ships by destroyer or submarine attacks on our bases in those early days. They possessed, in comparison with the uses for which they were required, almost a superfluity of destroyers . . . and they could not have put them to a better use than in an attack on Scapa Flow during the early months of the 1914-15 winter.-The late Admiral Earl Jellicoe...
...persons realize how greatly the cash-and-carry provisions of the Neutrality Act improve our position in comparison with the ticklish days of 1914-17. No longer will every sitting of a German prize court rouse the American people to a state of frenzy, for our ships will be kept out of dangerous seas. The "cash" ruling will enable the government to escape acting as a collection agency for big banks that loan money to the Allies. Unrestricted submarine warfare, the immediate occasion of our going to war against Germany in 1917, cannot now affect us. A good foundation...
...nights ago I was in Berlin and the blackout there was one hundred percent, really pitch black," reported a neutral diplomat who last week arrived in Paris. "By comparison with Berlin, what the French call a 'blackout' has left Paris still La Ville Lumière (the City of Light...
Thus with a terse communique this week the German Army High Command affected to close its books on the Blitzkrieg in Poland, promised that "exact [German] losses . . . unusually small in comparison to the enormous losses of the enemy . . . will be given in a few days."* Estimating the material cost to Germany of shattering Poland in three weeks, the communique added: "Munitions and fuel consumption of this campaign amounted to only a fraction of [German] monthly production." With a stiff, heel-clicking bow from the waist to the Nazi Party, the Army High Command observed that in Poland spade-wielding young...