Word: direful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...speech marked an important switch in Soviet policy from building machines, and yet more machines at all cost, to training men fitted to operate them. Not until last week did the world realize in most dramatic fashion in what dire need Soviet Russia is for capable, trained personnel. The Maxim Gorki, largest land-plane in the world, crashed in the worst airplane disaster in history (see p. 56). Russian designed, Russian built, the plane was technically perfect, might never have fallen but for the childish desire of a stunt pilot named Blagin to do tricks in dangerous proximity...
...policy for our international well being--is having serious effects in China. Although economists predicted an upheaval in China's silver market, Government financiers did their best to be little such predictions while the silver purchase act was pending. The cataclysm is now reaching proportions beyond even the most dire forecast...
...Washington Secretary Frederick J. Libby of the National Council for Prevention of War broadcast this dire prediction: "We shall build naval vessels and airplanes madly on a fictitious war scare which the munitions makers are trumping up. . . . Our shipbuilders, airplane manufacturers and munitions makers are already launching their publicity to reap a rich harvest from the breakdown of the London Naval conversations...
...Japan with a 750,000,000 yen deficit. Three days later Mr. Fujii abruptly resigned "suffering from a nervous and physical breakdown," according to his doctors, who said they were injecting him with camphor oil. Grimly the fighting services prepared to jam their budget through the Diet anyhow, circulated dire threats of what will happen to deputies who oppose them...
...young lad, Tom Keene, and his pretty wife, Karen Morley, finding themselves in dire economic straits, take advantage of an opportunity to go "back to the farm." Gathering about them a group of unemployed families, of the kind that is so pitifully a victim of the world chaos today, the pair set up a simplified self-subsisting community. It is strange that, in an attempt to portray the inevitable nobility of this American stock of which we are so proud, the producers saw fit to launch their actors on a communistic experiment of the most extreme kind. Getting away from...