Word: opener
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although the museum was open to the public on Friday, only a small group of visitors and a reduced staff were on hand. The showcases opened were in a third-floor room of the museum on a table...
...necessarily hopeless. Japan is not the U. S. Her resources have already been badly strained and it is conceivable that if the fight is sufficiently long and costly, it may break her economically. Nor is China Nicaragua. She is so large that any invader inevitably has long lines open to attack, and so populous that her resources of man power cannot soon be exhausted. Her greatest weakness has always been in will power. If Chiang Kai-shek and Mei-ling can maintain their will as China's will-the same will which said that "any sacrifice should...
This meant that His Majesty, the King's mistress Mme Lupescu and the Premier had been vigorously repudiated by the whole Rumanian people. The Parliamentary Opposition has long denounced His Majesty's open flaunting in strongly anti-Semitic Rumania of a Jewish mistress notorious for selling political favors. But last week King Carol did not think of abdicating and Premier Tatarescu, although defeated, thought of a desperate measure by which he might...
...solve Manhattan's intolerable traffic problem, immensely snarled by half-a-million daily commuters and the influx from twelve highways, led by great U. S. national No. 1. But not until the Depression loosed the public purse strings for work-making public works was there real accomplishment. Open for business 24 hours a day last month were five and one-half more miles-from 72nd Street to the George Washington Bridge-of the peripheral express highway which will someday ring Manhattan, vastly relieve the pressure of internal and through motor traffic (see map). Open for business last week...
...Open market sugar is, however, only one bonbon in the box of world consumption, which totals 30,000,000 tons per year. This is because most sugar-producing nations consume their own output. The U. S., for example, exports no domestic sugar, but grows some 6% of the world total and eats 22%, hence has no quota under the International Sugar Pact. It does have production quotas of its own, however, to control its beet sugar producers in the West, its cane sugar production in Louisiana, Florida and island possessions...