Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...discoverable portion of whose annual armament bill now about $80,000,000. Germany, forbidden by the Treaty of Versailles to import armaments, receives generous supplies from Sweden (where Krupp controls the armament firm of Bofors) and Holland; forbidden to Export armaments, she ships to South America, the Far East, or to any European nation that will violate its own treaty by ordering from her. Yet for all the might of the Krupp works we must look elsewhere today to find the real heart of the armament business...
...country is not, then, quite so virginally innocent in this business as we might like to suppose. But despite the size of our armament bill, our armament and munitions exports to South and Central America and the Far East, we are essentially small fry in this game...
...closest college baseball race ever known in the East swings past the mid-way mark today with six of the seven league teams still in the running, and with the probable winner just as much in the dark as it was before a ball was pitched--if not more...
...manual of futility, bitterness and despair, adapted from John Howard Lawson's play Success Story and designed to bludgeon home Hollywood's maxim that money is not everything. Joe Martin (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) is prompted by the death of his gangster brother to leave the East Side and rise in the world. Helped by his sweetheart Sarah (Colleen Moore), he gets a job in an advertising agency. His success soon begins when with the aid of a dictionary he turns out better copy than a college-bred rival. By dint of being mean, treacherous, morose and excitable...
...roster of winners is a roll-call of important U. S. dailies. Only twice has a smalltown daily been thus honored: the Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer-Sun in 1926, the Canton (Ohio) Daily News in 1927. But the Pulitzer Prize winner for 1934 is so microscopic that most newsreaders east of the Rocky Mountains needed an atlas and an Ayer's Directory of Periodicals to identify it. It was the Medford (Ore.) Mail Tribune (circulation: 4,500). No less extraordinary than the obscurity of the winner was the fact that its achievement was conservatively defensive against a crusading opposition paper...