Word: ironized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jubilantly the Nazi press announced last week that Germany's July export figures set a new high for the Hitler regime-530,000,000 marks ($213,219,000), 10% better than last month, 34% better than July 1936. Nearly all exports were finished goods-iron products, machines, chemicals, textiles, automobiles. Imports last month amounted to 499,700,000 marks ($201,029,310), nearly equal to the record high of the preceding month. Germany thus showed an export balance of 30,300,000 marks...
...visit Vienna where he trotted about happily in a green Tyrolean hat complete with feather, placing munitions orders. From Vienna he retired to famed Bad Nauheim to rest. But there was no rest for Japanese financiers. Last week they were desperately ordering from abroad not scrap iron but finished steel (more quickly convertible into war materials) and to pay for it they were already beginning to ship abroad quantities of Japan's small store of gold. Internally the Government launched 200,000,000 yen of deficit bonds, announced it would be necessary "to readjust [private] investment capital," presumably...
...plan for enlarging the Supreme Court and the Majority began to disintegrate. The good intentions of Congress towards the President's legislative program were put on the shelf. The only things which kept the Majority from going completely to pieces were personal loyalties of long standing and the iron will of Senator Joseph T. Robinson, Democratic Leader of the Senate...
...Girl Scouts and Girl Guides -only 101 strong-convened last week in a grove near Briarcliff Manor, about 35 miles north of Manhattan, but again the primeval urge made itself felt. Their barter, however, consisted of more appropriate articles, cotton bolls from South Carolina, scarves, tubes of powdered iron ore from Minnesota. Scout Sally Page of El Paso appeared with trade goods consisting of $2,000 worth of repudiated Mexican money...
Strictly anti-militaristic, the 75 U. S. Girl Scouts and 26 foreign young ladies pitched their tents helter-skelter-not in precise rows. No martial bugle but a huge iron dinner gong called young "Sylvias" to their meals.* Although their countrymen are at each other's throats, Ruth Sumi Sakurai of Tokyo and Hsueh Min Chang of Peiping came over on the same boat...