Word: creation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trusts have their work cut out for them. The Foreign Trading Corp., financed at $50,000,000, must win Chile's commerce away from the foreign capitalists "who failed us in our hour of need," according to the government bulletin. Whether the $50.000,000 includes the creation of a Chilean merchant marine to compete with U. S. lines, the Davila Plan...
Disraeli would have had to applaud the agility with which Count Uchida has made use of China's convenient "fissiparous tendencies" to divide and rule. He would have applauded the creation of Manchoukuo, an officially independent state whose advantages to Japan as a colony outweigh the responsibilities. But international ethics have advanced since the death of the pomaded Earl. The right of self-determination for any people, even one with fissiparous tendencies, is one that the average citizen of most countries believes in heartily. Even Count Uchida put forward as chief excuse for the invasion of Manchuria the idea that...
...Regener's record is accurate-only that Earth's lower atmosphere impedes the cosmic rays of their arrival from some source off Earth. It does not show what that source is-whether the rays originate from the destruction of matter in the stars (Jeans theory) or from creation of matter in the void between stars (Millikan theory). Certain aspects of cosmic rays suggest that they may be the newly recognized neutrons. Or they may be electrons drifting down from the heavily ionized, pulsating casing called the Kennelly-Heaviside Layer which at a distance...
...Creation of Reconstruction Finance Corp. to lend $2,000,000.000 to banks, railways, trust & insurance companies. R. F. C. checked the onrush of bank failures and rail receiverships. Up to last week it had lent $1,054,000,000 to 4,106 institutions...
Upon taking over Eye Opener, Mrs. Fawcett (who claims credit for having "planned the creation of Whiz Bang" with her ex-husband) hired as editor Wilkie Mahoney, one-time ace "gagman" for Publisher Fawcett's Whiz Bang, Smokehouse Monthly and Hooey (TIME, Dec. 29, 1930; Dec. 14, 1931). Also, it was reported, she issued orders to correspondents to put less smut, more gusto into their work. There will be a colyum (corresponding to Captain Billy's "Drippings from the Fawcett") in which she will identify herself as "Happy Divorcee," "Animated Annette," "Happy Hostess," "Torrid Toreador...