Word: europeans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seem to be getting used to crises regarding European matters just now. There seems to be tension all over-but everybody is quiet about it-and we still get the weather forecast on the wireless before the news...
...been General Robert Elkington Wood, president of Sears, Roebuck & Co. Last March when business appeasement was in the wind Secretary of Commerce Harry Hopkins invited him to Washington as a special adviser. Since then Harry Hopkins has been ill, and appeasement in U. S. politics like appeasement in European politics, has lost its vigor. Last week, as even hoped-for revision of deterrent corporate taxes disappeared (see p. 17), General Wood left the wings without going on stage and returned to his desk in Chicago...
...unnecessary provided the Axis gets its way, and there will be no war if the "knots" in European politics can be untied. He did not name the knots, but his listeners did, shouting "Nice!" "Savoy!" "Corsica...
...refinery and a shipping point; 3) a 3O-year monopoly to supply Paraguayan oil requirements; 4) freedom from taxes and levies on shipments from the Bolivian refinery. Since Paraguay uses little oil, main purpose of the treaty was to provide Bolivia with an export outlet to the European market (for which she fought Paraguay unsuccessfully in the Chaco War), making possible the German deal Senor Foianini announced last week. Looking a long way ahead, he generously agreed in return to sell to Paraguay at cost the German-built refinery...
...enough. The available soil, even including the Bohemian and what could be seized in Poland, Hungary and Rumania, is not sufficient to produce both fodder crops for the cattle and breadstuffs, sugar beets, potatoes, vegetables, flax and hemp for the 152,300,000 population of a Middle European empire. Intensive grain cultivation operations are now being set up in East Prussia, but most of the acres available for agricultural production are even now under intensive cultivation...