Word: elements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...China cannot absorb Japan, what are the chances of Japan's dominating China permanently? Here the second new element enters the situation. China absorbed her earlier conquerors chiefly by reason of her own greater cultural vitality. In part it has been this same vitality of the old Confucian way of life which has delayed China's modernization. In the last decade the tempo of modernization has markedly increased, but instead of evaporating, the old culture seems to be forming the basis for a rapidly growing modern nationalism,--as one might expect. Modern China is becoming more and more conscious...
...element in the nation's transport system the bus industry achieved official maturity in 1935 when Congress put it, along with trucking, under control of the Interstate Commerce Commission. Appropriately the interstate bus drivers went into the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. But interstate bus and truck lines are not yet within the moderating influence of the Railway Labor Act. Result was that with little or no warning, the country last week suffered its first major bus strike. The Railroad Trainmen called out 1,300 drivers on eight Greyhound lines serving 16 States east of the Mississippi...
...market in which there is such an enormous public interest-in which not only 300,000 small traders but 10,000,000 investors have a stake, it is essential that no element of the Casino be allowed to intrude and that all such elements be obliterated...
Another paradox is that the Communist allies of Boss Prieto have been tentatively drawing nearer to the Catholic element in Leftist Spain by permitting young Catholics to join the Leftist youth organizations -hitherto 100% Marxist. This tendency the Spanish Lenin has especially denounced. Last week, appeared a third paradox, a manifesto issued by Rightist Generalissimo Francisco Franco as the civil war entered its 17th month: "Our victory will bring a healthy redistribution of wealth! We are carrying out a profound revolution of the social order, inspired by the principles of the Catholic church. The number of rich persons will diminish...
...estimates their cost at $4,000,000 each. Of their safety it says, "While their size makes them vulnerable in high winds when making ground contacts (which are no hardship whatever to airplanes-rather, an advantage), nevertheless, the impossibility of slowing an airplane down brings with it a certain element of risk not present in the dirigible...