Word: european
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tokyo. The fleet has been built up by men like Admiral Togo, samurai ("military nobles") who went to England in their youth, drank at the authentic font of naval lore, and came home to instruct and inspire their countrymen. Japan requires a navy now as never before. The European nations, emerging from their mutual war preoccupation, will soon begin again to interpenetrate the Orient in earnest. Beside the problems of defense, Japan is faced with the eventual necessity of seeking new outlets for her population. Even if these be won by military conquest, on the adjacent continent the Occidental powers...
Edward E. Jordan (motor cars) said, with his usual crispness: "I have always maintained that the solution of the European problem does not lie in a group of men sitting around a table and figuring out what somebody owes; it lies in the introduction of 2,000,000 Fords and 2,000,000 telephones to cut down the cost of transportation, break down the barriers of language, religion, custom and prejudice. ... I think the most impressive fact in the last year's experience in business is that the industry shipped over 700,000 automobiles to foreign countries...
...Molpe" says Professor Gilbert Murray, "is the fountain-head of poetry in the European world." This ancient form of nature-worship, long antidating in Greece the period known as the Heroic Age, and combining in its expression in singing and dancing the worship of the aesthetic as well as that of the material, is so to speak, the primitive poetry of all European people at least, and as such underlies their later literature...
...everyone knows, the international tariff reform most desired by businessmen is the stabilization of tariff schedules. At present they are jumped and lowered so frequently by many of the minor European states that traders find their dealings menaced by uncertainties not unlike those encountered when national currencies are fluctuating rapidly. Instances have occurred in which minor European states have deliberately jumped or lowered their tariffs on the occasion of a single large shipment across their frontiers, readjusting the tariff scale again when the shipment had passed. If such sharp practice could be eliminated and the attitude of tariff barriers fixed...
Restrictions. Emphasis was given to Secretary Hoover's fulminations against European restrictions on the export of raw materials, last week, by an announcement from the British Colonial office that their policy will be continued for another year with respect to restrictions on the rubber exports from Malaya and Ceylon. Ergo, U. S. consumers will pay a higher price for rubber...