Word: done
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...France and Great Britain had done it, so the United States followed suit early in April...
This wealth cannot make up for the loss of the industrialized China coast. Nor can enough war material reach China by difficult caravan routes across the great deserts from Soviet Asia. But under stress the newly nationalist Chinese have done what no other people have ever done: they have picked up their factories-as a Biblical character once picked up his bed-and walked. Industrial equipment valued at $100,000,000 Chinese (U. S. $3,448,275) was removed from Shanghai in the early days of the war. That was only a beginning of a great industrial and cultural migration...
...result is skimpy where Hollywood has done little prospecting (Colonial days), rich where Hollywood has found the pickings good (Reconstruction, World War, etc.), authentic chiefly when the newsreel camera has the screen. More reliable as a history of Hollywood enterprise than as history straight, Land of Liberty recalls the cinema great from Griffith (America) to Disney (Building a Building), not forgetting Mae West (Belle of the Nineties) or the MARCH OF TIME. It opens with Roosevelt II rededicating the Statue of Liberty, scurries back 400 years to show why the early colonists left Europe, hits the high spots from then...
...worker's income must be automatically related to the rise and fall of the price structure. If this is done a proper balance will always be maintained...
...Guaranty Trust Co. became executor, Elder Statesman Elihu Root the lawyer, of the $135,000,000 Ryan estate. In kindly Pacifist Root's scheme of things, the sale of man-killers had no place. Quietly he put Auto-Ordnance on the shelf. The Thompsons, father and son, had done a good selling job, were on the way to making it better, but under Elihu Root's benign influence, sales were turned over to an agency. Auto-Ordnance went after no business. The Thompsons left the company...