Word: presented
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that the British Government, after weeks of dickering at London and Geneva, had virtually said "Yes" to the Soviet terms for a big, ironclad Stop Hitler alliance between Britain, France and Soviet Russia. Soon afterwards in Moscow, able, lively British Ambassador Sir William Seeds went to the Kremlin to present his Government's views to Premier Viacheslav Molotov, also Foreign Commissar since the retirement last month of the veteran Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff...
...milk, to make plastics and fabrics. Another of Mr. Ford's preoccupations is soybeans, which can be grown cheaply almost anywhere, yield oil for automobile lacquers, meal for plastic parts like horn buttons. Incidentally, soybeans are nutritious and soybean preparations figure prominently in Mr. Ford's present diet...
...Thousand Guineas, first of the season's Big Three races for three-year-olds.† Babbling bookmakers, taking hard-earned bobs from farmers, charwomen, clerks, winked slyly under their bowler hats. A notorious Derby jinx had plagued the Rosebery silks ever since 1905 when the present Earl's father, onetime Prime Minister of England, won his third and last Derby...
...Decoration Day (the same week in 1937 car production was 131,000), that the steel business placed during the May price cuts was mostly options, not orders, some of them merely verbal, and few even specified the size and composition of the steel wanted; therefore the present increase in production is mainly going into inventory...
...warned that if Germany and Italy try to take advantage of the confusion at present surrounding negotiations for a tribe entente to grab more territory on the "pretense of vital space," France is determined and ready to use force to preven any extension of totalitarian hedgemony...