Word: foreignism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Secretary informed the President that so big a wheat crop is coming up that the U. S. Treasury must lend growers perhaps as much as $100,000,000 to carry over their surplus. The Adjustment Act requires loans to farmers whenever prospective production rises above "normal" domestic and foreign demand (751,000,000 bushels...
...Canton-Hankow rail-line. A more direct route lies straight up the Yangtze, although this means fighting along a stream well blocked with booms and flanked by mountains pitted with Chinese gun emplacements. An indication that the Japanese will use this route came last week as they requested all foreign vessels, including U. S. and British gunboats at Kiukiang, to evacuate the area...
Capture of populous, prosperous Hankow will not mean the end of the war for China. Already unimportant Government bureaus have been moved upriver to Chungking and at Hankow the Foreign, Finance and Industry Ministries are poised to precede Chiang Kai-shek's military headquarters to the interior city of Kweiyang, slated as the next Chinese de facto capital...
Last week the French Foreign Office suddenly disclosed that a squad of Indo-China's Annamite police, commanded by French officers, had sailed across and occupied the islands for France. Ever since 1886, when France established a protectorate over the Indo-China Kingdom of Annam, France has claimed the Paracels because they formerly came under the sovereignty of Annam. Until last week, however, she made no move to occupy them...
...story becomes a monotonous recital of how the Shepherd brothers put tough customers in their places, of his political opinions and longings for good days long-past. But if its final impression is one of confusion, The Silver Magnet gives a better picture of capital in a foreign land than many an economic treatise on imperialism and absentee ownership...