Word: pointblank
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thoroughgoing Associated Press asked her pointblank...
...desire to have a friendly understanding with France. Germany wants Peace!" Said Mr. Crane, on reaching Paris, "With all the dynamic force for which he is famous, Hitler literally burst out with this assertion. I had not asked him about his attitude toward France. . . . Hitler's gestures and pointblank statements remind me of Theodore Roosevelt." While French editors voiced confidence that Premier Daladier would not walk into the "Hitler trap" of separate negotiation with Germany-a step sure to estrange from France her "Little Entente" allies (Czechoslovakia. Jugoslavia, Rumania) and Poland-shaggy, excitable French Foreign Minister
...that broke because it was not geared to the country." Carl Snyder of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York proposes an annual 4% increase in the issue of credit to keep pace with estimated industrial growth. Author Crowther shares the Sloan and Snyder view and sounds it off pointblank: ''Unemployment and poverty are hardly to be considered as the natural sequences to plenty, yet that is the conclusion we are bound to reach if we adopt the theory of overproduction as a cause for business disaster. These disasters are not . . . business disasters. They are financial...
...that point is successfully established by the Committee, it is impossible to believe that the French will refuse pointblank to recognize it. That love of legal formality which is part of their national character may cause them to delay active assistance, but in long run France will not sit idly by while the Bruening government falls. Another government in Germany would probably repudiate reparations altogether. The French will not hill the goose that lays the golden eggs...
...were dropped from 5,000 ft. around the target. Only two hits were scored which damaged the rusty freighter hardly at all. The Mt. Shasta still rode high on a calm sea. Two Coast Guard cutters thereupon went alongside, spent two hours firing one-pounders pointblank into her below the water line. At last she filled with water, sank in 150 fathoms. The Navy's mocking grin at the Army's aerial coast defense was broader than ever...