Word: newfangledness
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The newfangled notion that public debt can go on growing forever without doing any harm got a sock on the chin last week. The blow was aimed primarily at Assistant Secretary of State Adolf A. Berle Jr. and Professor Alvin H. Hansen, special economic adviser to Federal Reserve System, whose...
President Wilson was aboard the liner George Washington, returning from the Versailles Peace Conference. It had been announced that on the Fourth of July (1919) he would address the crews of all the convoying ships. The significance of this communication was noted by only a handful of newfangled thinkers - radio...
The Place. When it was built in 1884, the Murray Hill was the very last word in elegance, from the grey marble grand staircase to the dazzlingly newfangled electric lights that gleamed on the first two floors. There was a fireplace in every living room, a gilded chamber pot under...
For the British, the Transport Command was an important move. On the world's new international airways, British pilots will now have a chance to absorb the newfangled techniques of land-plane, over-water, high-speed operation which the U.S. has been developing.
To do this flying the Army has promised to "lend-lease" new cargo planes to the airlines as fast as they come off production lines-a minimum of 300 by Christmas. Said General George: "The only limit is [the airlines'] ability to expand." Biggest immediate addition will be scores...