Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...publicly visible part of the Coronation any shorter would be to cut from Buckingham Palace straight across the park to Westminster Abbey. Seat prices along the official route promptly soared last week to as much as $200 for a small chair on a precarious roof ledge. In a patriotic effort not to profiteer, one London firm offered armchair seats in its shop windows for only $150 each, including sandwiches and coffee. In Paris last week Edward VIII's coming Coronation inspired famed Style Creator Schiaparelli to bring out an autumn collection featuring crown-shaped hats, regal brocades and embroideries...
...effort to outwit the Doctor, the U. S. Government, after a study of his methods, concluded that the various kinds of Schacht marks amounted to a German Government subsidy of goods shipped to the U. S. and retaliated with countervailing duties under the Tariff Act of 1930. For the benefit of U. S. customs inspectors German exporters were required to swear to statements of the amount of any German subsidy they received. Whether President Roosevelt knew it or not, under Nazi law it is high treason to divulge such German economic secrets to a foreigner, much less to swear...
...cargo of wheat, flour, timber. The first ship to clear Churchill this year, the Firby was also the first to carry passengers to Europe under an organized booking service. In the past, passengers have occasionally been taken, usually listed as crew. The new arrangement is the latest Canadian effort to make a paying proposition out of Churchill, which was developed as a port five years ago at tremendous cost, has so far proved a failure...
Officially, no country wins the Olympic Games. Patterned on their Greek models, each event is an individual contest of which the winner is an individual or a specialized team. Any effort to rate Olympic performances in national units raises questions of procedure such as whether the sport of Running, backbone of the Olympics, with 14 major subdivisions, should be given the same importance as the sport of Canoeing...
Unable to name the weak and treacherous employes RCA is supposed to have seduced, and unwilling to specify what secrets had been purloined, Philco nevertheless wailed: "-It has required the great-skill, invention, vigilance and effort successfully to develop and maintain such a business in the face of its highly competitive nature ... and particularly the competition of RCA ... by reason of its financial power and patent monopoly " By underhanded acts, complained Philco, RCA "is seeking further to extend and strengthen its domination and control of said industry...