Word: europ
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...poem is concerned with the variously-named demigod or "spirit of the year"-e.g., Zeus, son of Rhea . . . who in early European religious theory was at first wholly subject to his all-powerful variously-named Virgin Mother. As Europë, "Broad-face" (her full-moon title), she named this...
...most of the warring nations of the world. He transformed France's famed Schneider et Cie. (Le Creusot) into an international power early this century, bought iron mines, mills, foundries, and shipyards in France, mines in Belgium and Poland, plants in Russia, finally founded the holding company, Union Européenne Industrielle et Financière. Through it Schneider-Creusot ultimately controlled 182 armaments works in France, 230 outside, including the giant Skoda works in Czecho-Slovakia. Skoda was allegedly Schneider's "dirty works" plant-handler of contracts Schneider-Creusot would have found politically embarrassing. Through control...
Swakopmund. "Its buildings might have been lifted bodily from any small north German seaside town: its hotels-the Hansa, Fürst Bismarck, Thüringer Hof, Europäischer Hof-its bungalows and cinema and charming baroque church. Its solid burghers who have been here over a generation are still wearing their blue German peaked caps, the schoolboys, their green or red caps with gold braid...
Blitzkrieg, Blitz-peace and Blitz-prosperity seemed to be the Nazi schedule for Hitler-Europe last week as Germany began preparations for exploiting current and anticipated conquests. Flushed with confidence of an early and complete victory, Nazi economic experts proclaimed the dethroning of gold and announced the future domination of world trade by a centrally controlled Kontinental-Mittel-europäischer-Wirtschaftsraum (Continental-Central-European Economic Space), extending from Gibraltar to the Vistula and from the Norwegian coast to Sicily. With equal assurance, German steel companies offered steel to South American countries at prices considerably lower than U. S. quotations...