Word: nationalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...capita of population than any city of comparable size in the U. S.; bunco-men and pickpockets fight shy of San Francisco; robberies and burglaries are constantly decreasing; in short, no less an authority than Director J. Edgar Hoover has described San Francisco as the "white spot of the nation," so far as crime is concerned...
...Lithuania. The population is a piddling 152,000, some 78% of them claimed by Germany. Memel has no industries important enough for the Nazis to boast of and Germany has many better ports. To Lithuania, however, it represents one-sixth of her industry, and it was the nation's only good outlet to the sea. With Memel gone, Lithuania now has only twelve miles of coastline. Furthermore, the Memel area controls the mouth of the Niemen River, on which traffic winds far into Poland...
...almost all the oil, wheat and agricultural produce of King Carol's large and fertile domains. Just to make things official, Aggrandizer Hitler also formally assumed a 25-year protectorate over Slovakia. To show that he had interests out side of Europe, the Mehrer signed a "most-favored-nation" commercial treaty with Manchukuo, Japan's Far Eastern satellite...
...Herr Hitler dispatched to Signor Benito Mussolini a message assuring him that the German people would "stand shoulder to shoulder with the battle-proved Italian nation in defense against all hateful and incomprehensible attempts to restrict the justified will for living of our two peoples...
Under the "heavy pressure of circumstances" the Kingdom of Rumania last week signed a trade treaty with the Third Reich which, in effect, converted Rumania from an independent nation to a German dependency. In no instance of modern times has one State made such humiliating, far-reaching economic concessions to another as Rumania's King Carol II made in Bucharest last week to Dr. Helmuth Wohlthat, Führer Hitler's traveling salesman...