Word: papered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many a time Señor Espil trotted into Cordell Hull's paper-cluttered office. But more often he went to the cool gardens of Oxon Hill, Maryland, where poised Mr. Welles lives like an English squire. There they talked ways & means of climbing hurdles One to Five, especially how to convince Espil's boss, Minister Lamas, that with the U. S., not Great Britain, lay Argentina's future...
Industries. There was less consumer goods per capita than in 1913; the Gorki Paper Plant, accounting for 15% of Russia's newsprint, filled only 20% of its quota, hundreds of freight cars were needed at once...
...evening Britain recalled Sir Edward Grey's epic lament about the lamps going out all over Europe, never again to be relit in his time. The late August moon rode alone over a darkened city whose street intersections were marked only by thin crosses cut in the black paper masking their traffic lights. Dim blue bulbs picked out busses and subway entrances. Lord Halifax, returning across Downing Street from No. 10 to the Foreign Office after a night broadcast, could not find the keyhole, had to strike matches. In Hyde Park, antiaircraft crews stood by their guns through...
...beside the fate of the Suez Canal, for which Palestine is a northern rampart, and of the oil pipeline from Iraq which reaches tidewater at Haifa. Realizing this, Zionist President Chaim Weizmann, a brilliant chemist who contributed synthetic acetone to World War I, announced: "In spite of the White Paper [establishing an Arab-dominated State in Palestine] the Jews support British Democracy in the present darkest hours...
...luckily remote from the main radio battlefield. In 1920, Lenin foresaw "the newspaper without paper and without distance." Now Tass, official Soviet news agency, radios its news daily to 3,254 newspapers. Some two-thirds of all Russia's long-distance telegraphic communication is relayed by radio. Russia's 75 stations (mightiest, 500-kilowatt Radio Moscow) speak 62 languages in reaching the 170,000,000 inhabitants. Listening is largely in groups, in workers' clubs, factories, etc., over receivers which tune in the Government programs, nothing else. Russia is too far away from the rest of the crowded...