Word: joined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This was perhaps the only remaining way to say what half-a-dozen other Administration spokesmen had been saying for three weeks. But no one had yet been very convincing about the threat which made it a practical necessity for the U. S. to join the rest of the world (excluding The Netherlands and Scandinavia) in the current armament marathon, to take a further step away from the economy of welfare and toward the economy of warfare prevailing in the bankrupt nations of the world...
...only a coincidence, however, that the rare and curious burls from which the gaudiest veneers for furniture are made result from a tree disease somewhat similar to boils. Nobody knows what causes burls, as nobody knows what causes cancer. They form most often underground where the roots join the tree. Burl diggers notice a slight swelling of the trunk at the ground level, dig down, chop off the roots and lift out the burl. The surgery required for burls above ground is more simple; they are just sawed...
Highlight of the trip will be the first Regional Harvard Club meetings in Cincinnati on Tuesday, where 13 Harvard Clubs from five mid-western states will join with the Cincinnati group in honoring the President...
Early attempts to get the U. S. to join in international cartels were thwarted by the anti-trust laws. But in 1918 the Webb-Pomerene Act was passed which had the effect of enabling U. S. businessmen to join up provided that no restraint of trade within the U. S. was involved. U. S. businessmen joined up both officially and unofficially in many cartels, including those for heavy chemicals, rubber and copper. But steel has refrained chiefly for the reason expressed by onetime President W. A. Irvin of U. S. Steel: "With 49% of the world's capacity...
...undersell them abroad. Last week when the Earl of Dudley arrived it was generally assumed that if he could not wangle actual U. S. participation in the cartel he would try to get the big steel concerns to force the little ones now engaged in foreign dumping to join in the "gentlemen's agreement." Last week the only fact that emerged from a great cloud of secrecy was that the Earl would do his negotiating with the Steel Exporters Association of America, an organization of big steel concerns. The Earl of Dudley was asked point-blank if he wanted...