Word: overly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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I hope and pray that America will not come into the war: that it will not be necessary for her actively and under arms, to help the cause of democracy. You will, by remaining a great and friendly neutral do more to preserve the spirit of democracy, and do more...
> "Exhausted" was an over-violent word. Still well-oiled is Pennsylvania, though its oil now lies so deep that primary drilling has given way to "water drive"-pumping water to force oil through the wells. Pennsylvania's reserves on January 1, 1939 were 200,000,000 barrels, as compared...
Problem. Hardheaded diplomats deplored the rocketing headlines over the case of City of Flint. U. S. diplomatic history is crammed with such cases; the U. S. has an impressive record of skill in litigation over them. The likelihood that the future will see more important issues made it desirable that...
At 10 p.m. on the third day of City of Flint's stay, Ambassador Steinhardt, armed with new instructions from Washington, talked over the case with Foreign Commissariat officials. Hour and a half later the Soviet radio announced that Russia was releasing the ship on condition that she leave...
> Demanded that the vessel and cargo be turned over to the U. S. > Asked who had verified the alleged damage to the City of Flint's machinery that Vice Commissar Potemkin asserted to be the reason for the ship's remaining at Murmansk.