Word: paradoxical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...like period a year ago. The Dow-Jones average of prime railroad bonds was above 100 for the first time since it was compiled nearly 20 years ago. To silver talk in Washington and rocketing grain markets in Chicago, the stock-market gave scant heed. Behind this paradox of rising business and falling stocks bulked one large fact: the indexes of trade are written in the past tense. By last week John Businessman was ready to admit that the swift pace of the spring advance had definitely slackened. For the stockmarket's sorry performance inflationists blamed dollar stabilization...
...stands today as a queer paradox: France, the democracy, a quiet pasture land for the world's most famous peasantry, coexisting with France, the greatest military power of modern times, with an army which all but equals in numbers and far surpasses in equipment Germany's vast militaristic machine...
...America is seems unfair that one of the latent causes of future wars is nothing more than a lack of agreement between nations as to the settlement of the "fruits" of the last. The college student of today is conscious of the World War only as on historical paradox. Even those of us who lost relatives in that futile struggle have long since ceased to nurse any rancour, other than that arising from the misery and despair we see all round us, for which we must hold our elders responsible. We have no bone to pick with other peoples...
...England's Vickers-Armstrong, France's Schneider-Creusot, Germany's Krupp, Czechoslovakia's Skoda. Their interlocking connections (which Authors Engelbrecht & Hanighen show in charts) are almost incredibly complex; the only real competitor any of them has is peace. Says Author Seldes: "It is a recurrent paradox of the international gun trade that nations arm their enemies." During the War German scrap iron at the rate of 150,000 tons a month was shipped into France, via Switzerland. French bauxite (aluminum) found its way into the construction of German submarines; German barbed wire helped defend Verdun...
...wages. Only the "artificial" remedies have had any real and lasting effect. And any attempt to substitute for them the bad economics and ballyhoo of the N.R.A. and the codes will result, if not in unprecedented economic disaster, at least in an indefinite prolongation of the present inexcusable paradox of want in the presence of plenty...