Word: good
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With U. S. exporters now able to obtain payments for goods sold to Brazil, the resumption of payment on Brazil's bonds, the possibility of the U. S. obtaining rubber (an essential war material) from the western hemisphere, the solidarity of the western hemisphere was brought a good step closer...
...roughly a ratio of 100-85-58.* Except for the slight lag of the U. S. behind Britain (which has always existed), this is the famous 5-5-3 ratio set by the Washington Naval Treaty way back in 1922. The Law of Naval Races having held good for 17 years, the next six are not apt to see it broken...
...they have been getting a cup of tea and a biscuit before getting up; a breakfast of porridge, hot milk, liver and onion sauce, bread, butter and marmalade; a morning collation of an apple and milk; a lunch of meat pie, cabbage, mashed potatoes, soup, figs and custard; a good big high tea and a dinner of fish and chips, tea, bread and milk. Result: 1,400 have passed the Army tests. Another, unwanted, result: Laborites are asking why undernourished women and children cannot also be fed back to health...
...anti-Jewish Hlinka Guard have long plotted, through the semi-autonomous Slovak Cabinet, to proclaim Slovakia's independence, relying on Germany's support and subsequent protection. To a Germany which frankly wants to get a foothold in Carpatho-Ukraine, right next to Slovakia, such a plan smelled good. In any case, the weaker Czecho-Slovakia becomes the more potent becomes Germany's dominion over...
...publicity was any mention of contemporary art. Outraged artists last year made a stink about this, persuaded Fair President Grover Aloysius Whalen to make room for an art exhibition under the seasoned direction of the Federal Art Project's Holger Cahill (TIME, April 25). Since then a modest, good-looking building has gone up and U. S. artists and museum directors have gone ahead with a national competition to select 800 works...