Word: new
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many years been taken as perfectly sound indications of what horse would win the Cesarewitch stakes, what the weather would be like on Boxing Day, how long Noel Coward's latest would run, whether or not Adolf Hitler would strike. Last week Lloyd's offered a brand new type of insurance: against death or injuries inflicted on the King's civilian subjects by the King's military enemies. Rate for this air-raid insurance: ?1 of premium for every ?100 of insurance. Rate for London is the same as that for Leeds or Rosyth or Dover...
After removals, the jigsaw puzzle was only half there. What would the picture be when the new pieces were...
Many of the new ministerial appointments seemed routine enough. But two key jobs-Secretary of the Fascist Party and Chief of Staff of the Army-fell to men with plenty of significance. Italy would be neutral but strong, isolated but ready. Two of the toughest bambinos in Italy came...
...exchange of warm letters with Greece, notes which had the actual effect of a pact of friendship. Thus Italy took step No. 1 in the widely heralded effort to dominate the Balkans. Next step: talk with Bulgaria. This week Premier Mussolini's conference with his new Under Secretary of War, General Ubaldo Soddu, embraced "certain instructions to prepare and to enlarge" the Army...
...Belgium's defense was in final readiness, and correspondents were shown that country's new defense against tanks: mobile, steel-girder "gates" on rollers, which can be pushed across country, two men to a gate, or dragged in long lines by tractors. Chained together, the gates form a resilient wall which impedes tanks butting it yet is not easily broken by shellfire. Tanks slowed down by the bending wall would make easy targets for defensive fire. Belgium was said to have enough such gates for a continuous wall all along her German frontier...