Word: handed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Friends. "True and sincere friendship arose between Germany on the one hand and the Italian Empire in the Mediterranean and Japan in the Far East on the other hand. Soviet Russia has recently also joined the ranks of the States that are friendly toward Germany . . . and there is every reason to hope that this friendship will grow still closer...
...Finnish public had not yet been told in detail the Russian demands, but nobody had much difficulty in guessing that they exceeded the Finnish idea of independence and neutrality. The political atmosphere indicated that a major national crisis was at hand and that this would probably be the tell-tale week. Foreign Minister Eljas Erkko, in a big patriotic rally, said that a "period of nerve-testing" was at hand. "The time is difficult," Press Chief Urho Toivola admitted. "We feel our freedom and independence are threatened." Early this week 300 Finns gathered outside the Helsinki Hotel at which...
Whether or not the details of these dispatches were accurate, they all added up to one conclusion: Russia was acting on some understanding with Germany to the effect that she should have a free hand aiding China against Germany's erstwhile partner. And they further suggested what Russia might be getting in return from China-political, economic, perhaps even territorial concessions in China's northwest...
More than that he did not have to say. Hedda Hopper shook his hand understandingly, hopped in her car, drove straight to the office of the Los Angeles Times. There she wrote a new lead, quoting James Roosevelt's words. The front page was replated, pushing aside news of the war in Europe. At four in the morning on a quiet Sunday last week Hedda Hopper's story was on the street. A characteristic California story, it ranked as the Pacific Coast's newsbeat of the year...
...even in 1937 new utility investment (exclusive of TVA and other Government spending) recovered to only $450,000,000. One reason for expanding power sales is that today every installation by industry of high-powered modern machinery adds huge wholesale loads to electric consumption. With a possible boom at hand and more than half of U. S. machinery still well over ten years old (and not using as much juice as new units), if industry begins to modernize on a big scale the utilities may have to step lively to keep...