Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shortly after TIME, July 24 (with Countess Ciano on the cover) appeared, all Italian newsstands were forbidden to display foreign publications so that they could be seen by the public...
Records. Attachés from Germany and Italy sat among the foreign contingent directly in front of Chief Arnold as he dwelt upon the six new records casually set by the Corps during the week just past. For them he emphasized the fact that these marks had been made without recourse to "suped up" engines, synthetic fuels or "five-hour engines" (such as Nazis and Fascists use). Flying all one afternoon and night, the big four-motored Boeing "superfortress" (XB-15) carried a two-ton payload 3,107 miles averaging 166.32 m.p.h. No record existed for this weight and distance...
...cackle of 10,000 assorted fowl, delegates from 45 foreign nations and poultry fanciers from 48 States began a ten-day chicken festival. No less than 150,000 congress tickets were sold to poultry raisers four months before the opening. By the fourth day attendance was 110,000; 500,000 poultry folk were expected in Cleveland before this week...
...skids under trade with the U.S.'s third-best customer.* To Japan last year went 7.7% ($239,639,000) U.S. exports; from Japan came 6.5% ($126,828,000) of U.S. imports. Small as this was in the U.S. total it represented 16.6% of Japan's foreign exports, made the U.S. her No. 1 customer. By toting up this million-dollar-a-day business, Japan could see that...
...employes, by next month's end will have 300 working three shifts. Over the boards, six draftsmen and eight designers wield pen and T square turning out drawings for scale models of most U.S. military and commercial airplanes in the air today, as well as many a foreign model. Comet has 6,000 dealers, 20 full-time salesmen, a branch and salesroom in Manhattan. Its models, ranging from the Dawn Patrol Fleet (retail price: five for 5?) to the Comet Clipper ($6.50, less motor), are sold all over the world...