Word: parallelisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fortnight ago the "Big Four Banks" of Italy were regrouped by a merger under the aegis of the Dictator into the "Big Three Banks" (TIME, Feb. 24). Perhaps by coincidence, but certainly as a result of Italian and Bulgarian minds again working along parallel lines, a similar merger followed last week in Sofia...
...42x0 PARALLEL-John Dos Passes -Harper...
Significance. Plainly these parallel statements indicate well-nigh complete agreement between Britain and the U. S. A two-power treaty could have been signed any day last week. But the great issue of whether France will concede parity to Italy ?as Britain has to the U. S.?remained unsettled, with both parties snarling, and with the French especially angry because their P. T. F. (Proposition Transactionelle Franqaise) or French Basis for Bargaining had been simply ignored by Statesman Stimson, and Statesman MacDonald had snubbed (see Cruisers above) the Tardieu proposal for limitation by "global tonnage...
...French possessions, unless NYRBA carries mail for Aeropostale and gives the latter access to its airports. The U. S. State Department last week was chaffering with the French government on this matter. Watching the situation was not only NYRBA and Aeropostale, but also the German Condor Line which also parallels much of the Aeropostale route, and Pan American Airways which intends to parallel NYRBA all the way to Buenos Aires?unless the Aviation Corp. of the Americas, which owns Pan American, buys control of NYRBA and so ends U. S. competition in the region. Another watcher of the fray...
...most important books on the Harper list will be published on February 19th: "The 42nd Parallel", the first novel in three years by John Dos Passos...