Word: greatly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...What a great thing it would be if we could persuade the nations of the world to abandon the submarine for warfare! I think it must be said to the credit of this country that such a proposal was made years ago by Britain, but it has not been possible to achieve international agreement on the matter...
...step was confident. Since the Chamber adjourned the week before a new weapon, a new persuader, had come into his hands. Philip Snowden, British Chancellor of the Exchequer, had announced that if France paid the U. S. the $400,000,000 which nonratification of the debt agreement entailed, Great Britain would insist on the immediate payment of a like sum against her debt bill (see p. 23). Not 400 but 800 millions, therefore, was the price of non-ratification...
...There is practically no product that cannot be produced somewhere in this great empire," said Privy Seal Thomas...
Giving examples of colonial projects that deserved immediate assistance he mentioned a great drainage scheme in fever-ridden Sierra Leone, West Africa; works in Northern Rhodesia to accommodate the enormous copper developments there; railway work between East African Kenya Colony and the British protectorate, Uganda...
Anxious as was Russia for the C. E. R., last week, was Japan, China's other neighbor on the left, for her South Manchuria Railway which cuts north from the great Japanese port of Dairen to Changchun, where it connects with the C. E. R. Ingeniously wangled from Russia after the Russo-Japanese War, the S. M. R. is today worth $220,000,000, keeps the Japanese Colony of Korea fed with Manchurian wheat and soya beans. Its 700 miles of track are guarded by 20,000 soldiers against just such an attack as last week befell...