Word: funk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...early 1900s, Henry Clapp Sherman, now a professor at Columbia, discovered the value of minerals-iron, calcium, phosphorus. Then came the researches on vitamins, beginning with the discovery of a "vitamine" (B) by a Pole, Casimir Funk...
...series of articles on fifth-column activities in the U. S. that pulled together a good many facts on the size and tactics of subversive organizations, painted a picture that was scary but not altogether clear. Last week he turned out a book, The Fifth Column Is Here (Wilfred Funk; $1), that had all his old facts and a lot of new ones, made the picture just as scary but much clearer, and that outlined a U. S. defense against fifth-column hamstringing...
...ENGLAND SLEPT-John F. Kennedy-Funk...
...Thus did Funk blast the cartel scheme with which, at last week's Havana conference, the U. S. was trying to build a solid hemisphere front. Well did Herr Funk know that the U. S. (with her exportable surpluses of agricultural products) would not be able to buy enough from South America (which has mainly agricultural products to sell) to provide her with the money to buy the products of U. S. industry. But Germany (and all Europe), which needs food and raw materials, could pay for them with the industrial products South America lacks. Most disquieting thing about...
...Herr Funk's grim warning was only confirmation of the view taken by the New York Times's No. i foreign correspondent, Otto D. Tolischus, in his book They Wanted War (TIME, July 29). Contemplating a U. S. left, if Britain is beaten, to face a new Nazi economy of "blood over gold," he observed: "Such an upheaval . . . would put America's entire foreign trade . . . under the control of Germany and her allies. . . . America would find the competition of a consolidated Europe, behind whose salesmen stood the military might of Germany...