Word: program
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...break down its bars against the shipment of foreign exchange out of Brazil, which has played into the hands of the Nazi barter program...
...Tokyo Diet's Budget Committee by Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai, will provide $329,177,940 over a period of six years to supplement building now going on. The Admiral said that latest plans of the U. S. and Britain had been taken into account in mapping the program, and provision made for increases in case those countries should further jack up their building rate...
...that Japan will have to strain hard not to lose ground. In fiscal 1939 Great Britain is spending $302,500,000 on new construction, the U. S. $211,113,000, Japan $16,420,950. Even allowing for the amount Japan saves on cheap labor and building costs, her present program is far from "equal to the strongest." Neither Britain nor the U. S. has planned six years ahead, but all indications are that at the end of that time their relative strength to Japan will be just about what it is now: Britain has an estimated 2,000,000 tons...
...sicker than ever. Mahatma Gandhi's prestige, having been vastly enhanced by his victorious fast (TIME, March 13) against Rajkot's ruler, which ended last week with a glass of orange juice, the Congress Working Committee voted 218-10-133 to follow the Mahatma's moderate program in the future, rather than Bose's radical one, in their fight for Indian nationalism. President Bose promptly retired to the hospital with a temperature...
Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon announced in the House of Commons that Britain would put up ?5,000,000 to help stabilize Chinese currency. Not only did the money help China, but it thoroughly botched up a Japanese program to oust the Chinese dollar by Japanese-backed money...