Word: irone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...home, the Government of Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye was forced to pull Japan's belt a little tighter to cope with the gnawing of war on her financial stomach. It decreed that some 47 types of articles (most important: cotton cloth and iron products), would no longer be produced for Japanese consumption. As soon as present stocks are exhausted, the populace will switch to staple fiber, synthetic materials...
...Iron & steel products...
Minnesota is a strong Farmer-Labor State, but of late the Farmer-Labor Party has been straining at its internal hyphen. Earnest, hard-boiled Governor Elmer A. Benson is a favorite in the Twin Cities and with the miners of the northern iron ranges. He is less popular with many a farmer suspicious of the Governor's city ways, his enthusiasm for organized labor even when it takes money out of farm pockets. Hero of such conservative Farmer-Laborites is bespectacled Hjalmar Petersen, onetime lieutenant governor who served four months as Governor after the death of Boss Floyd Olson...
Last week Germany showed that she had overplayed her unemployment solution, had actually created a labor shortage. Scheduled for immediate execution under the Four-Year Plan is the building of the Hermann Göring Iron Works, the production of cheap Volkswagen automobiles promised by Führer Hitler, the rebuilding of Berlin and Munich according to the Fuhrer's ambitious schemes. To provide labor for these and other purely Government projects, Field Marshal Göring, Four-Year Plan Commissioner, decreed a sensational labor conscription...
...Germany held third place in exports to Brazil, U. S. first, Great Britain second. That year Nazi barter economics started in earnest in Brazil. Germany bartered for Brazilian cotton, coffee, cocoa, gave in return machinery, iron and steel, manufactured products. In 1936 Germany rose quickly to first place as Brazilian exporter, held it through...