Word: nationalized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Finns are daring to resist the demands of the Soviet government representing 170,000,000 Russians. As a result, while charting themselves an extremely perilous course in foreign relations, the Finns have caused the people of the world to gaze with incredulity and curiosity at the one Baltic nation not capitulating...
...occurred to many sports-lovers that the policies now followed by Finland are exactly what might be expected from the nation known to them through the medium of the playing field. Aside from political, racial, and economic factors explaining the so-called natural Finish antipathy for Russia, persons familiar with Finland's national "personality" declare that her stubborn refusal to accede to Russian demands is entirely in accord with Finnish attitudes in athletics...
...This Army of ours . . . still has the amateur spirit, which is deep in our character as a nation, or perhaps is a pose belonging to a tradition that we are loath to abandon. I cannot imagine the German Army behaving in the same informal, humorous...
...merchant marine. By 1948, 500 of the Maritime Commission's new ships will be off the ways. Within three years 1,300 of the 1,400 ocean vessels flying the U. S. flag will be 20 years old. Only once in a generation can any nation's merchant marine count on selling its obsolete equipment at fancy prices, thanks...
...Congress is the latest, most up-to-date and streamlined weapon for keeping the U.S. out of war. It is a product of one of the outstanding modern examples of the democratic process of debate, an unhurried and penetrating discussion of the subject by great minds all over the nation on both sides of the question. It would be a tragedy if the Act, so carefully and thoughtfully formulated should fall short of its purpose through faulty administration...