Word: holding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chicherin destroyed his health trying to be a one-man Foreign Office. He retired in 1928, was Commissar in name only until 1930, died in 1936, was succeeded by his Vice-Commissar, a former newspaperman, corset salesman and revolutionary hold-up man who had begun his diplomatic career as the first Soviet Ambassador to Great Britain...
Geodetic construction is used on no other American plane, but Britain's geodetic Vickers Wellesley bombers are among the finest in the world, hold the longdistance flight record of 7,162 miles. By using spruce, of which Oregon has plenty, instead of metal weaving strips, Greenwood-Yates have cut the cost of frame material for a single airplane to $50, are able to build it lighter than with steel...
...Decision to hold the first General Conference of the church next year-sooner than had been expected...
...have just received new orders for one battleship and two cruisers) saw his common selling at 30% below the year's high. U. S. Steel Corp. was floundering in the red. General Electric's Gerard Swope had nothing to cheer about: his April orders had failed to hold the March improvement...
...Czecho-Slovakia, but has since returned to Zlin. His biggest current problem is the 25% countervailing duty imposed by the U. S. on German-made goods, which completely kills Czech shoe imports (3,250,000 pairs last year). The Belcamp plant is Bat'a's attempt to hold this fat U. S. market...