Word: nationally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...visitor sees a fine front. There is no open evidence of constraint, repression, or fear. Whatever it may be worth, money flows freely. The people are well dressed, well fed, fairly well housed. At parades, reviews, unveilings, cornerstone Mayings, a, busy, eager nation is always on its toes to cheer Mussolini, the King, and the flag, even though every mail box is sealed tight with steel baffles when the two heads of the Empire visit their loyal Milano. Bombs and infernal machines have exploded in these boxes. For ten days preceding Hitler's arrival no parcels will be delivered...
...Congress as it drove toward adjournment last week, the work most momentous for Business and the Nation was being done off the floor, behind the closed doors of conference rooms. Day after the 14 Wages-&-Hours conferees finally pushed back their chairs with a bill ready to be presented to both houses, another joint committee agreed on a $3,753,000,000 version of the Lend-Spend Bill, including two items ($212,000,000 for farm benefits. $1,000,000 for Rural Electrification administrative expenses) which the House would have to vote on separately this week. Meanwhile on the floor...
...sensible nation declares war any more. The automatic operation of neutrality laws, possible sanctions against aggressors, questions of belligerent rights and rights of blockade, make a declaration of war altogether indiscreet and rash...
When Austria was taken over by Germany three months ago the little nation owed a total of $400,000,000 in foreign debts. No one seriously expected Germany to continue payments on these and last week, when the first interest payments after the anschluss came due, Germany defaulted on three Austrian foreign loans totaling $230,000,000 which were largely held in the U. S., Great Britain, France...
...totaled 1,731,000 metric tons (a metric ton is 2,204.6 pounds) in 1936; Austria's 1,867.000. In foodstuffs and livestock for the same year, Germany imported 2,168,000 metric tons more than she sold abroad, and Austria 1,121,000 more. Thus, the little nation of 7,000,000 Austrians, due to her insufficient agricultural production and almost non-existent import restrictions, had to buy abroad more raw and semi-raw materials, half as much in food, as did highly developed Germany with her 65,000,000 inhabitants...