Word: plains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stages of preparation for a war which Adolf Hitler would decide to fight now or later. On August 15, the 52 divisions of the German Army had begun a month of divisional training. Corps maneuvers in the 18 corps areas were under way this week. But it was agonizingly plain to those on the opposite side of the Rhine that Germany was not merely engaged in normal autumn military exercises...
...recently to Moscow and conferred with leaders of the Third International, last week he carefully had his F. L. A. W. announce solidarity not with the Third (Communist) International but with the Second (Socialist) International, to which most European labor leaders outside of Russia belong. While making it very plain that his presence was "purely unofficial," John L. Lewis, no Communist and no Socialist, felicitated Mexico for having in President Cárdenas a friend of Labor comparable to President Roosevelt, and declared of the F. L. A. W.: "I think the formation of this organization...
...Plain, pious U. S. Roman Catholics hear little of the tremendous widening of modern Catholic theology in Europe. There the most influential lay Catholic thinker is a mild-mannered little Frenchman, Jacques Maritain, convert to the faith and professor at the Institut Catholique in Paris. Maritain is a follower of the great medieval doctor of the Church, St. Thomas Aquinas. In Neo-Thomism, based upon the monumental Summae of St. Thomas, Maritain sees the unique cure for modern ills. Seeking, like Karl Barth, to rescue civilization from humanism and revive pure Christianity, Neo-Thomism does not "annihilate man before...
...first result of his pondering, the Dymaxion house, streamlined, suspended from a mast and containing a self-acting sewage system, made it plain that Mr. Fuller was the most fertile and inventive U. S. designer of pre-fabricated housing...
...September: Youngstown Sheet & Tube, $30,000,000; Phillips Petroleum, $25,000,000; Atlantic Refining Co., $25,000,000; Gulf States Utilities $10,000,000. Only about half of these four borrowings are for working capital-hence industrial companies, if not utilities, are floating loans for new money. Another plain fact is that generally only top-notch companies thus far have tried to raise money and they have offered mostly senior issues. Many economists hold that there can be no noteworthy recovery in the capital market until there are buyers for second-grade securities...