Word: extention
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...large extent the tentative, day-to-day diplomacy of the anti-fascist powers is attributable to the fact that the statesmen of the "Peace Front" have been slow to find conclusive answers to these questions. But facts are known, and the basic facts go back to the days before the last war. The Nazi economy has merely given a new twist to these basic facts of Germany's 70-year-old economic history...
...devices, with the Germans paying foreign exporters in special marks good only for German goods at a price lower than the internal price level. Boycotts and currency difficulties kept lopping off chunks of normal German trade with England, the U. S., and Soviet Russia, but export subsidies to the extent of 30% of the value of all German exports enabled Nazi businessmen to quote speciously attractive prices to the Balkans and South America, regions with surpluses of grain, tobacco, oil, cotton, coffee and cocoa. Between debtor nations the system of subsidized barter might have worked satisfactorily enough, but the Nazis...
...produced for universal consumption and the productive machinery is merely tapped, not regimented, for the use or revenue of the State-for an economy of warfare, Germany has developed out of her eco-nomic past a new and unique type of economy. The Italians have to a lesser extent followed the same method and the eagerly imitative Japanese have copied Nazi procedure since their Chinese adventure...
...about one-eighth of its assets, invested in Spain. In 1935 they earned a tidy $2,600,000. But for the last two years President Behn has had to leave Spain out of his income account. Last week, he laconically reported: "The extent of damage to the properties has not yet been ascertained, but reports received indicate that a high percentage of the 346,000 telephones in service at the beginning of the civil war still remain in service...
...vast field which responds badly to the integrated treatment we have suffered under elsewhere. As for the reflex of economic forces upon social events, Professor Usher has emphasized them repeatedly as he passed from topic to topic; and at the beginning of the year expressed his extent of agreement and disagreement with the specific theory of the economic determination of history. We remember with appreciation his humane and genuine interest in all subjects and in his own students...