Word: ended
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cost of half a billion dollars; he upped the Navy's enlisted personnel to 100,000, authorized the creation of aerial landing facilities on Guam, Midway and Wake Islands, threatened to fortify all trans-Pacific naval bases if Japan won parity with the U. S. By the end of 1935 he could say: "I am pleased to report that the Navy is in a very high state of efficiency and morale." It was, for the first time since...
Soon this addendum cut off most U. S. arms and ammunition, including airplane parts, from the Loyalists while Generalissimo Franco continued to get most of what he wanted from the Axis. So the Spanish war went on to its bitter end and the U. S. was not involved...
Quiet. Meanwhile, in Germany Füher Hitler went at week's end to his cool retreat in Bavaria. Many of his political lieutenants were taking a rest. The German generals were said to be scattered in spas around the country. The Foreign Office at Berlin was almost deserted and hard-working Nazi editorial writers, finding little news to discuss, ridiculed the "democracy-manufactured" crisis over Danzig, the Free City on the Baltic, and made fun of the "'war of nerves" which the French and British Governments had professed to believe was beginning. In fact, official Germany last...
...Julián, like the President, was never very enthusiastic in the prosecution of the Civil War. Stories leaked out that while attending the coronation of George VI in London in 1937 as an official Spanish delegate he approached the British Foreign Office with a view to ending the War by mediation. Last spring, after Catalonia fell, Professor Besteiro was one of the leaders of the coup which seized power from the Juan Negrin Government and set up a Defense Council with the avowed purpose of making peace with General Franco. Many believed that the French and British Governments, almost...
...covered 300,000 miles, never had an accident. Three weeks ago, still heading for the horizon, still happy as newlyweds, the Dankowskes nosed the 1 6-year-old Nomad out of Chicago toward California. Fondly beaming on Wife Mary, Fred Dankowske announced that they would keep on to the end of the trail. Said he: "This is the finest kind of life. It costs only $160 a month and you see the dreams you carry in your heart...