Word: outlet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...glance at the map shows that Russia does not need the Alands, unless she is imperialistically minded toward Scandinavia, and Swedes hoped Moscow would rest content for a time at least with having obtained prime ice-free outlets to the Baltic through Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. This gives Russia what she has long desired, a "Central Outlet" midway between her "Northern Outlet" via Murmansk and her "Southern Outlet" via the Dardanelles. Next Soviet thrust, Scandinavians devoutly hoped, may be in the Black Sea, possibly to persuade Rumania to "lease" at Constantsa a Soviet naval base...
...ships v. 254 for the Allies), this time the Russians (with 28 more ships) cannot be counted on to join a march against Berlin, even if a shallow-draft armada should push through. Besides submarines, the Gate-crashers would now have to cope with large minefields at the outlet of the three narrow channels to the Baltic, as well as bombing planes...
...whole legion of non-Communist but hitherto sympathetic pinkos, the New Republic and the Nation deplored "Stalin's Munich," Hitler's "colossal diplomatic victory." For thousands of citizens who had contributed to the Front simple libertarian goodwill, there was no outlet save a murmur of disillusion over the land. For millions of suspicious isolationists the worst opinion of the Reds was merely confirmed. Famed Editor William Allen White's son William L. reported from Emporia: ". . . No one in Kansas was stunned this morning, and we are doing business as usual. . . . It's much simpler now that...
When the rig was ready, two of the outlet tubes he inserted into the babies' nostrils. After they began to gasp again, he pulled out the nostril tubes, attached a rubber mask made from an old stomach pump in his instrument kit to the fourth tube, held it for a few minutes over each baby's nose. In a short time their pinched blue faces turned red again and they began to breathe normally...
...During the prosperous Republican Twenties, while Washington boasted balanced budgets, State and local governments were running up debt at the rate of nearly $1,000,000,000 yearly; since 1932, however, State and local governments instead of providing an outlet for savings have been piling them up. Carrie's argument : the net Federal investment now has to be at least $1,000,000,000 to provide equivalent purchasing power...