Word: easts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...miles deep in California and Louisiana, with rigs floating in barges penetrating the mud of the shores of the Gulf of Mexico, with its 96,612 miles of pipe lines running from Oklahoma to New Jersey and crisscrossing the continent like veins under its skin, with the fields of East or West Texas or central Louisiana calling for supply houses at Fort Worth, Tulsa, Corpus Christi, with the thousands of flares burning the escaping gas, hissing as they burn, lighting up the derricks and stretching out under the wind like yellowish acetylene pennants of flame...
...answer that it was not the "method but the useful result that counts"-i.e., that the end justifies the means. But "thanks to Mr. Stalin," Germany and Russia had now restored that entity. They were going to do more. Not only in Central Europe but to the "south and east" the Communazis intended to perform further cooperative works, including "reestablishment and reorganization of economic life," and, in an unspecified manner, shift some ethnographic groups-possibly German Jews to central Poland and "splinters" of "German nationality" back into the Reich. This "south and east" business was the part of the speech...
...codifying of Herr Hitler's "statute of security." Security sounds good to the French; it is their favorite national word. Statute sounds good to the British. With talk of Russian pressure on India (see p. 43), with more than talk of Japanese pressure in the Far East, the British would presumably welcome and help enforce any reasonable legality which would insure an ordered world. It would not have to be a British world, either, but a shared responsibility...
Whether or not the Kremlin was preparing to take almost defenseless Bessarabia from Rumania like candy from a baby, and regardless of how much truth lay behind sensational reports of joint action in the Near East being contemplated by Russia and Turkey to overwhelm Syria, Palestine and Iraq, it remained an arresting fact that in Moscow the official tone was markedly anti-British, anti-French and pro-German...
Soldiers of the Armed forces in the East...