Word: neutralizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...With neutral shipping at a Wartime premium, Denmark's Plum created Det Danske Transatlantiske Dampskibs-Sels-kab (Danish Transatlantic Steamship Corp.). Part of the huge profits he used after the Soviet Revolution to finance the anti-Bolshevist campaigns of "White Russian" General Yudenitch and Admiral Kolchak. Their failures cost him dear. In 1924 his Trans-Atlantic Corp. crashed for a stupendous loss to shareholders in which the Danish Landmansbank alone dropped 200,000,000 kroner ($53,600,000). Incensed, the Danish Government started to probe Plum...
...Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus ("Cunctator"), the Insurgents with almost the entire Democratic army, executed a quick flank movement. With Freebooter Norris taking command and uttering blood-thirsty cries, the opposition Senator-soldiers marched toward the farm lowlands. In a fierce three-hour assault they pushed headlong into this neutral territory, laying behind them a long pipe line stretching from the U. S. Treasury marked Export Debenture...
...spoke in Manhattan, her countrymen were echoing her words with action. The intense Nationalistic Wafd party ("Egypt for the Egyptians"), violently opposed to the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty, forced the resignation of Prime Minister Mohamed Mahmud Pasha, puppet dictator, chief Egyptian negotiator of the Treaty. Plump, passive King Fuad invited neutral Adly Pasha Yeghen, twice Prime Minister, to form a "temporary" cabinet, permitted him to restore the parliamentary regime. The new leader immediately announced that in the coming universal-suffrage elections the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty question would be put directly to the people...
...wings tilt, the plane goes up, down or, happily, level. He does not know. His instruments go "hay wire." He is helpless. In terror he may try to guide himself. Generally that is useless. Experienced professional pilots, particularly on the night mail routes, often set their planes at neutral, take their hands off the controls, fold their arms and apathetically wait to get out of the fog, or to crash...
...doughty French Prime Minister Aristide Briand. It was a queer tussle. M. Briand is at least three times as great in girth as the frail Yorkshireman, and nine years his senior in statecraft. The Latins, supported by Japan and with Germany's blocky Foreign Minister Dr. Gustav Stresemann neutral, were in solid phalanx pressing for adoption of the Young Plan unchanged. They were satisfied with the size of their pieces of sponge cake. Since Britain wanted more?since she wanted some of their cake?there was battle royal. In four smashing rounds Battling Snowden led with logical lefts and sarcastic...