Word: coverts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Country editors have little chance, however, of getting rich. The average publisher-owner of a small-town weekly earns about $2,400 a year, including income from his job printing. If he lives far out on the range, like Editor Charles Laflin of the Covert, S. Dak., Advance, he must often take turkeys and fence posts for subscriptions. He is likely to be chosen mayor, basketball referee or blood donor at any moment. He works 60 to 80 hours a week, and rarely reads a book. And above all, he has to watch what he prints. A Rockland, Mass, editor...
...helium. It is a U. S. monopoly. The willingness of Presidents Hoover and Roosevelt to sell Germany enough helium to fly the Graf and the Hindenburg on peaceful missions was offset by the price factor (more than 30 times as expensive, for 20% less payload efficiency) and by covert political opposition. As Columnist Dorothy Thompson wrote: "The destruction of the Hindenburg was an act of sabotage. For the peaceful world today, the world that seeks to join hands in the perfection of greater technologies, that seeks mutual enrichment and mutual understanding by all means of physical, intellectual and spiritual intercourse...
...Yawned as His Majesty's Loyal Opposition, the Laborites led by harassed Major Clement Attlee, found their Party so internally divided that they were unable to attack His Majesty's Government on its policy of covert support of the Spanish White Armies (see p. 35) or on any other aspect of British foreign policy. The best Major Atlee and 40 Labor M.P.s could do was to sign a protest against the German Government's execution of a German Communist last week in Hamburg, and thus arouse individual British Labor sympathizers to chalk London Streets last week with...
Ever since civil war burst over Spain, European military experts have been saying that a crucial test was whether the White forces of Generalissimo Francisco Franco would be able to take Irun on the French frontier and thus cut off the Madrid Government from receiving covert aid from the French Front Populaire...
These activities of the Great Powers, plus the rounding out last week of the French-sponsored international embargo on arms shipments to Spain by the adherence of Germany, made Madrid Bigwig Prieto angrily conclude that evidently the White forces in Spain enjoy the covert sympathy of London and Paris as well as the candid sympathy of Rome and Berlin. "I cannot understand why France and Great Britain can be so blind!" cried Indalecio Prieto. "How can they envision with pleasure the establishment of a Fascist regime in the west end of Europe? What will they say if General Franco wins...