Word: post
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Leader of the House of Commons rebels was no Jack Garner, but cherubic, rebellious Conservative Winston Churchill, who, when stirred, is the House's most effective speaker. Last week Mr. Churchill let himself go in the most savage speech he has made since the post-Munich debate. The occasion was a Government motion for adjournment. Labor, about as strong as the Republicans were in Congress in 1936, offered an amendment that the House reassemble in three weeks instead of two months. Last year, when Parliament adjourned (after a reassuring speech by Prime Minister Chamberlain), it reassembled to be faced...
...Every major economic change produced by war, even the creation of new industries, is a dislocation which upsets the world for a long time afterward. Every neutral which had a war boom in 1914-18 had a post-War depression when its wartime markets were lost. In the case of the last war, after the first depression of 1921, the neutrals settled down to a decade of struggle with the recovering belligerents for the markets of the world...
Cuba's sugar millionaires in 1919 became sugar paupers by 1921 and Cuba suffered severe depression. Chile's Wartime profits in nitrates and copper were followed by post-War losses that wrecked her economy. U. S. farmers, who during the War period had sold all the grain that they could raise, found themselves in the post-War depression with crops they could not sell and progressively went bankrupt all through the twenties. The depression of 1929 was the culmination of this struggle for markets...
...past charges (about 50 a year), but the one he likes best to talk about is Gallant Fox, his favorite. He likes to tell how, in his first big race as a two-year-old, the pride of Belair?a $12,000 investment?was left at the post, too fascinated by an airplane overhead (the first he had ever seen) to budge...
...British Army captain who came to the U. S. to grow beans and ran the St. Louis zoo instead, Jock Bellairs went to work for the old St. Louis Globe in 1890, when he was 21. He left the Globe for the Chronicle, left the Chronicle for the Post-Dispatch, left the Post-Dispatch to return to the Star-Chronicle, which, as the Star-Times, now pays him his salary. Sitting in the press room at headquarters one day in 1898, Reporter Bellairs heard four bombs go off, the Chronicle's signal to the city that the Spanish-American...