Word: moments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dominated by Britain, so ran the popular dogma and so the British Admiralty has stiffly held. Today, however, with Italy triumphant and formidably facing Suez, London was fast telling itself last week that an alternative route to India must at once be got into safe shape. In this queasy moment it was British and it was brave to get ready to believe that the new Lifeline of Empire is better, stronger and more glorious than the old. It runs clear around Africa, past the ominous Cape, whose storms were once so deadly to sailing ships. It is no narrow, canalized...
...among them were concerned if the market price for livestock for the moment justified the overgrazing of pastures, or a temporary boom in the price of cotton or corn tempted them to forget that rotation of crops was a farming maxim as far back as the days of ancient Babylon...
...From the moment when he had delivered his effective nominating speech and staged the most dramatic nomination which Republicans have made in a generation, John Hamilton took over the machinery of the GOP. An immense job of reconstruction was before him. Next afternoon he began work at a snappy session of the new Republican National Committee. Gone from the committee were such old familiar faces as Walter Folger Brown of Ohio, David A. Reed of Pennsylvania, Mark L. Requa of California, Frank L. Smith of Illinois. In their places were Young Guardsmen. Without saying boo, the committee elected John Hamilton...
...local Japanese needed by spunky little Japanese Premier Koki Hirota as an excuse to intervene. By his orders a Japanese cruiser and six destroyers soon slithered into Amoy "to protect Japanese lives and property." Added a Japanese destroyer officer, "We are ready to proceed to Canton at a moment's notice...
...first time in the memory of West Coast produce dealers, spring potatoes are moving as far east as Manhattan. Farmers of California's famed Shafter area, which is producing virtually all new Western potatoes at the moment, will gross some $8,000,000 from 9,000 acres- more than the entire California crop from 45,000 acres brought last year...