Word: content
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Schneider-Creusot, Germany's Krupp, Britain's Vickers-Armstrong, Czechoslovakia's Skoda. First companies called before Senator Nye's committee were Electric Boat Co. of Groton, Conn, (submarines) and Driggs Ordnance & Engineering Co. (antiaircraft guns). Those who expected to hear the cannons roar had to content themselves with a volley of cap pistols. The business ethics of these companies might be low but their volume of trade and general influence in world affairs was even lower. What made their testimony important was that they are primarily dependent on war or the fear of war to make...
...stormed to an official of the Wilhelmstrasse last week, "If France and Russia have an alliance, then let this alliance come out into the open!" But such is not the method of the Old Diplomacy. Without an alliance France drew England into the Great War and M. Barthou is content to make for the moment an entente with Russia...
...little schooner Pro Patria made the long run to Pitcairn Island (1200 miles) without incident. Hall had two days on the island, talked to the descendants of the mutineers, prowled the storied spots to his heart's content. Though it was near hurricane season he looked forward to as peaceful a passage home, with plenty of leisure to read the MED-to-MUM volume of the Encyclopedia Britannica he had brought with him to while away the time. But about 3 a. m. one night of dirty weather they struck the reef of Timoe. Luckily the schooner wedged herself...
...billion he subtracted a $1,600,000,000 increase in the Government's cash on hand. He also subtracted $1,095,000,000 of assets acquired by RFC and other Government lending agencies. Then he also subtracted $2,800,000,000 of "profit" from devaluating the gold content of the dollar, a decidedly tricky item. The gold profit does provide a means which some day can be used to pay New Deal expenses, but it nonetheless represented a cost to the country. If the New Deal called in all silverware, and then handed back seven teaspoons for every twelve turned...
Seemingly last week Japan was content to let the negotiations remain deadlocked at this point, encouraged Manchukuo to bait Russia. Instead of the release of Soviet railwaymen demanded by Ambassador Yurenev, 70 more were arrested in Manchukuo. In Moscow, where Josef Stalin is not anxious for a fight, correspondents were told that "Russia will not move unless her soil is trod upon." In Tokyo testy old War Minister Senjuro Hayashi, a lion in the field though some what of a peacock in a photographer's studio, blustered...