Word: nationally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only houses legally unfit for habitation, but also basement flats where now live some 100.000 souls. Only six out of every 100 U. S. inhabitants live in New York City, but one tenth of all Britons are Londoners. The new Labor Government in London had instant repercussions in the national Government last week. No sooner had the County Council an nounced its slum clearance program than the national Government pulled from its hat the largest slum clearance project Britain has ever known. Covering all England and Wales, it was to employ 115,000 men continuously for five years, cost...
...College education, I baked pies for the Woman's Exchange for 16 years to do it," said she. "I am sure she cannot be a spy, Marjorie was so carefully raised. She was never allowed to play on the city streets." ¶In peace or in war all nations employ spies-more often to discover prosaic matters of policy than to hunt out exciting military secrets. The U. S. State Department has a secret fund which never appears in the budget and for which no accounting is made. With it the Government pays for its spies at secret work...
...coordinate business and the State. Private business will remain, but it will be put in the service of the people and the State. . . . Honest competition must be but it is to be controlled by strong leadership, focused magnetlike upon the supreme goal of commonweal and service to the nation." With the rhetoric went a plan. All industry was to be divided into a dozen groups: 1) mining and rough metals; 2) machinery and electrical goods; 3) iron and other metal products; 4) building materials, glass and pottery; 5) chemicals, oils and paper; 6) leather, textiles and clothing; 7) food...
...will continue to do so. The Hungarians are a strong people, who merit and will be accorded a better destiny. Our relations with Jugoslavia are normal; that is to say, diplomatically correct, but nothing more. Relations with France have improved generally. "To pretend to eternally keep a nation like Germany disarmed is pure illusion, unless one has the objective of preventing by force of arms Germany's eventual rearmament. This game has a supreme stake-the lives of millions of men and the destiny of Europe...
Washington, March 22--Complete re-organization of the nation's facilities for handling freight in less than carload lots, with rail and truck transportation co-ordinated, is proposed in a report made public tonight by Joseph B. Eastman, federal co-ordinator of transportation...