Word: presentness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...subject of a court investigation last May, are under scrutiny of the U. S. Department of Justice. Said Mr. Schenck last week, replying to Willie Bioff's talk about a plot: "In the case of William Bioff, the producers . . . are not responsible directly or indirectly . . . for his present personal predicament. . . . They resent the imputation that they would resort to any such methods...
...present Germany is probably stepping up her [airplane] production rate faster than Britain, France and the United States combined, so that for the next few months-probably until next spring or early summer-the Reich may well lengthen her lead. . . . After that time the Allies, aided by large purchases from the United States, should gradually overtake the German lead and eventually-perhaps by the fall of 1940 or the spring of 1941-outstrip Germany in quantitative production...
Writer Baldwin, whose data are apparently as good as can be had in the U. S., set present German plane output at 1,500-to-1,800 per month, against about 1,000 for Britain,* plus 300-to-500 for France and 250-to-400 military planes for the U. S. (Even if each side loses ten planes a day, these figures if true mean that the air force of each side is evidently growing at the rate of more than 40 ships a day.) Expert Baldwin quoted official estimates of the potential of Germany's 28 factories...
...officials, both paid and voluntary, are conducting themselves in a manner entirely incompatible with their obligations, and those guilty of infractions will be subjected to ruthless punishment. Every official must realize that he is there for the people and not the people there for him, and during the present difficult period bureaucratic narrow-mindedness, smallness of vision, presumptuousness and autocratic manners must cease...
Ever since the present war started, enlightened statesmen of the little States of southeastern Europe have believed that the Danubian countries must either hang together or be hanged separately. They urged the formation of a bloc of Danubian neutrals who would temporarily forget their sectional differences. Fortnight ago even Hungary, most intransigent of revision-seeking powers, was believed ready to join up. Then last week something happened: the big powers yanked their strongest strings, and Danubian federation was once more pulled asunder. The biggest string stretched was Count...