Word: paradoxity
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...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...
...bushel, cotton $2 a bale. But most businessmen, who regard the dollar's stability as more important than its value, heaved a sigh of relief. And their feeling was reflected in a rising market for both Government and corporate bonds. Said the Baltimore Sun: "It is a paradox that a Presidential message which proposes to perpetuate revolutionary changes in the nation's monetary system should carry encouragement to conservatives, and yet that is the probable effect." Even the Republican Philadelphia Inquirer opined: "The President is for sound money. There is not a crumb of confidence ... for inflationists...
Besides those gloomy figures Director Vidal contemplated the paradox that while there are 14,000 licensed pilots in the land there are only 7,000 licensed planes (including some 600 of each employed on transport lines). Also there are 11,000 student pilots, 8,500 mechanics-potentially 33,500 new plane-owners right at hand. The reason for this situation was simple. Since airplanes are practically handmade, you cannot buy much of a ship for less than $2,000; and if you want room for two or three extra passengers it is apt to cost...
...paradox is the fact that hot, dry, healthful Southwestern U. S. cities have high tuberculosis death rates. Tuberculous persons flock there seeking health. Statistician Frederick L. Hoffman reported in The Spectator last week that El Paso, Tex. last year had the highest pulmonary tuberculosis death rate in the U. S., 201.3 deaths per 100,000 population, followed by Little Rock, Ark. with 154.4. Large Negro and Mexican populations also up consumption death rates in Southern and Southwestern cities...