Word: forgets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Behind such trifles was masked the significance of the Black committee's resumption of operations. Its investigation of airmail contracts had made a headline stir which the U. S. would not soon forget. But unfinished was its more important inquiry into what profit the U. S. Government got from selling $559,000,000 worth of ships for $40,000,000, from lending $145,000,000 to shipping operators at infinitesimal rates of interest, from paying $140,000,000 in ocean mail subsidies during the last five years...
...cotton war between Japan and Britain budded and bloomed in India five years ago. Remembering the picturesque but inefficient spinning wheel of St. Gandhi, people forget that even in 19^9 idia had a modern, highly efficient domestic cotton industry capable of supplv-mg all but 25% of her needs. That 25% was the prize, and in 1929 Britain got twice as much of it as did Japan. Then came Depression, the Gandhi anti-British boy, depreciation of the yen. Japanese cotton sales to India rose "and rose until by 1932 they not only passed Britain but were cutting seriously...
...People forget the low purchasing power of the native boys. The purchase of cheap Japanese rubber soled shoes has done more to check hookworm here than all the efforts of the health department...
...League. The next problem in Koki Hirota's busy week was what to do about Dr. Ludwik Rajchman. So glaring are the things that the League of Nations ills to do that the world is apt to forget the practical international charity which the League attempts. Year ago it was the League-inspired loan to Austria that did much to ward off Hitlerism and keep Engelbert Dollfuss in the saddle. Since 1930 the League has been doing what it could for impoverished China. Eight months ago it commissioned its Dr. Ludwik Rajchman, Polish expert on China...
Conductor Janssen likes to have people forget his Hofbrau background. But Father Janssen proudly asks everyone he meets now if they know about his son Werner. Father Janssen is happy, also, on his own account. Repeal business has picked up in the old restaurant on 30th Street, the only one he has left. And he intends to branch out again, open a big place in Rockefeller Center. The new Hofbrau may be ready next winter when Werner's time comes to conduct the Philharmonic...