Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...government is preparing industry on a vast scale for a climax known as "M" day. It has been brought to my attention by several people concerned with the coffin industry that their business is being completely overlooked. During World War I the shattered remains of Americans were buried in foreign coffins, thereby showing how we failed to give domestic employment to hundreds, as well as dividends to the coffin stockholders. Therefore I am hoping that TIME will support this noble cause by demanding that our government order from various coffin makers hundreds of thousands of coffins and have them shipped...
These agencies will have the tasks of directing the flow of materials, controlling prices, securing cooperation from industry, and administering foreign trade. They would also establish government corporations to assume business war-risks not reasonable to impose on private firms, as, for instance, supplying war credits, shipbuilding, power development, and war risk insurance...
...programs will consist of discussions in German, French, and Italian covering "the American business situation, data on American politics, and an account of the American point of view on some important problems of foreign affairs," according to Professor Cross...
Discontinued over the summer, the broadcasts were resumed on a daily basis during the August crisis. They were again suspended only when it became high treason under German law to listen to foreign newscasts, and when all powerful receiving sets in Germany had been confiscated...
Professor Cross's background for his new avocation goes beyond the academic. For six years after graduating from Harvard he served in the foreign service of the Department of Commerce; part of that time as commercial attache at Brussels and the Hague, and for the remainder as the Department's European chief...