Word: evens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Peace through the troubled waters safely into the harbour of tranquillity and better times." Even more confident of peace was Edward Lyndoe in The People: "Anyone who listens to, and believes, this War-by-the-end-of-August rubbish is beyond hope." In the Sunday Chronicle Petulengro said: "News from Germany will again cause concern, but the planets ruling this country will smooth over the difficulties...
...greatest, most tragic failure of the Christian Church in modern times was that it was unable to halt the slow march of Christendom toward World War II. The World Council of Churches, a federation of the greatest non-Roman communions, was born too late to help; it is not even yet operating officially. Unofficially, the Council last July summoned a "board of strategy" of 32 men and two women to meet in a Swiss hotel, draw up a program of Christian international strategy. A long statement of their views was published last week in The Christian Century, with an introduction...
...Even though war did not seem inevitable in July, the board of strategy was realistic: it said nothing about calling a peace conference. Wrote Dr. Palmer (before the war began) : "Recommending a peace conference was like advocating the wisdom of insurance in the midst of a city-wide conflagration." The board surveyed the background of the world's disorders, presented some political and economic principles based upon its belief that "the Church Universal ... is not a mere idea but a reality, transcending the nations. It is created by the will of God, not by the will...
...keep its fingers crossed about the real economic profits which a war boom, might offer, but the soundest element of last week's incipient boom was that it had already stimulated employment, thereby increasing purchasing power to support a continuation of bigger production. By reemployment such a boom, even if false, might inaugurate the opposite of the vicious circle of depression: the beginning of a delicious circle of recovery...
...Railroads, which in recent years have been employing fewer men than even in 1931, began to show signs of rehiring. Pennsylvania put 1,560 to work, Louisville & Nashville 650, Pittsburgh & Lake Erie 200. In the Pittsburgh area alone, 1,800 furloughed employes were recalled to handle steel and coal shipments. B. & 0. recalled 800 men for repairing and building cars & locomotives. Pennsylvania estimated that it would require 4,000 more men to repair freight cars, 2,000,000 man-hours of work on passenger cars, locomotives and new freight cars...