Word: hulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...along the Pennine Range, which are old Paleozoic uplands winding north & south, cut in two by a gap between Manchester and Leeds. Through this gap a canal was dug in the early 19th Century to connect the Mersey River with Aire River and the Humber Estuary which flows past Hull. In deep pockets on both flanks of the Pennines lie coal and iron (the min ing regions are shown on the map by tipples) near which the great industrial centres grew - Leeds, Sheffield, Nottingham, Derby, Birmingham, Manchester. Around these cities lies "black country," shrouded in smoke, lurid at night with...
...Germans, echoing a story in the New York Daily News, claimed they had effectively "closed" the port of London, had stopped virtually all traffic in & out of Hull, Newcastle, Southampton. Great Britain replied that none of these ports was closed except momentarily, to sweep up mines. Minister of Shipping Ronald Cross admitted, however, that traffic at any port might be dislocated at any time by "war conditions," for which...
Good or bad, the figures could not pierce the pall at the Palace. They were ancient history; the delegates were worried about Tomorrow. Long had the Council plumped for more and freer trade, steadily endorsed the reciprocal trade agreement program of Cordell Hull. Last week it watched the Secretary of State take one more backward step in his losing battle for commercial freedom: to the long list of U. S. foreign-trade restrictions was added an embargo on aviation gasoline to countries outside the Western Hemisphere. Free traders confronted in San Francisco the question that lurks at every...
...convention's grimmest words were spoken by a vice president of Manhattan's Chase National (biggest U. S.) Bank. Tall, balding Joseph Charles Roven-sky foresaw putting a lot of liberty on the shelf right away. He believed the U. S. would abandon at least temporarily the Hull methods, resort to Hitler's own methods of "barter or compensation trade." The Hull program was "sound in conception under normal conditions," said he, but "it is entirely probable that . . . we . . . shall also adopt trading practices born of expediency...
...little as they liked to, they admitted that if Germany controls post-war Europe, they will trade with Germany. Before adjourning they passed a sheaf of resolutions. Among them: 1) gold is valuable; 2) the Johnson Act should be repealed; 3) the Hull reciprocal trade agreements are fine...