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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...large khaki tents will be provided. Tea will be served under smaller marquees. The hard drink bar will be around a corner, out of sight. Guests must remain until Their Majesties withdraw. Then "the garden gates will be opened and the guests will leave," unhandshaken (because of their number) by moose-tall Sir Ronald & Lady Lindsay, whose last official performance in Washington this will...
...though their soil and raw materials are poor. But whatever the truth of the Socialist argument, it is axiomatic that a nation's total well-being under any economic system is limited by two things: the nature of the land and what is under the land, and the number and ingenuity of the population. A nation of clever and ambitious people with scant natural resources has but one recourse: it must sell its services by fabricating and transporting raw materials supplied by others. The economic history of Germany since the third quarter of the last cen- tury has been...
...will need 15 to 20 million tons of oil a year. The entire annual yield of the nearby Rumanian fields, assuming Germany could and would quickly take Rumania through Hungary, is short of 7,000,-ooo tons and synthetic production in Germany can hardly exceed a million tons. Furthermore, number one truism of writers on military problems is that the next long war will be won by the nation with the greatest industrial potential behind the lines. The ability to mass-produce and to service guns, tanks, planes, ships and motors will, so the military theoreticians predict, be the crucial...
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...spring of 1929 they and one or two other liberal ladies laid plans for a new museum. To head their organizing committee they chose A. Conger Goodyear, a solid, sensitive industrialist (lumber) with practical experience as a trustee of Buffalo's Albright Art Gallery. Mr. Goodyear knew a number of good men to have on the board of trustees, among them Harvard's eminent scholar and mentor of curators, Professor Paul Joseph Sachs. As Professor Sachs returned from a trip abroad in June 1929, Mr. Goodyear shook his hand and asked him to name the ablest candidate available...