Word: hewn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Butter, wheat, barley, oats, corn, poultry, raw cotton, petroleum, wood and timber hewn, sawn, planed or dressed; pit props, pit wood, staves and sleepers; plywood, builders' woodwork including window frames, doors and parts thereof...
Federal Reserve. Although to many last week the U. S. banking structure seemed ready to fall on their heads, there was one big beam that was still as sound as the day it was hewn-the Federal Reserve System. It stood last week as it has throughout the Depression, in an impregnable position. It pumped out $215,000,000 in credit, it saw the money in circulation rise to the highest point in a decade as fear of runs made bankers fill their tills with cash and fear of failure sent depositors scurrying to the tills. It saw its gold...
Poland, by far the biggest and most potent state hewn out of the War, grew agitated last week over her Presidential election next June. Urgent is the necessity of picking a President possessing world prestige-for who knows how much longer the Fascists, Militarists and Junkers now riding high in Germany will let the Polish Corridor alone? To a British journalist Chancellor Hitler exclaimed: "The Polish Corridor must be returned...
...this week. In its flight the plane will accomplish, in unforeseen manner, the dream of Cecil John Rhodes. It was his ambition to see a British railway "from the Cape to Cairo." The railway is not yet finished. But the 18-passenger ship which crosses Rhodes's rock-hewn grave is the first of a weekly service of Imperial Airways connecting not only Cape & Cairo, but both of them with London and India...
Foreign Exchange. A rough-hewn plug to caulk the constant draining of German capital abroad was the following order: "Whoever owns foreign exchange or has claims for foreign exchange shall offer the claims or the exchange to the Reichsbank on the ordinary business conditions, and upon demand shall sell or transfer them to the bank...