Word: raws
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...firms as well as engineers sent to help the Soviet Union improve its backward transport systems. This week two big Nazi planes brought an Economic Delegation of 14, and after they conferred with Soviet Premier Viacheslav Molotov a communiqué announced that Russia will "immediately begin supplying Germany [raw] materials and Germany begin filling orders [of finished products...
...last" chance for peace may also be Italy's last chance to maintain neutrality. Economically the country is in no condition to endure the belt-tightening that all European neutrals must undergo these days. Her typical products are not those that warring nations might buy. Her supply of raw materials is limited. Far from self-sufficient, what little peacetime trade Italy had is likely to dry up to the point where she can no longer pay for some of the essentials she must buy outside the country...
...Legion passionately recommended: Prompt expansion of the regular Army and National Guard; a program to insure a supply of raw and manufactured material to equip and supply land & sea forces of at least 1,000,000 men for a period of not less than one year. It also demanded a Navy second to none, bases at Guam and Wake Islands, an impregnable Panama Canal, an Alaskan National Guard. With no less passion it asked for legislation to outlaw the Communist Party...
Germany with [raw] materials for which Germany will compensate her by industrial supplies [finished products] over a long time." But. each side being as cagey as it is, there was a long way between promise and delivery...
...Moscow last week concerned the question of the Dardanelles. If the Turks should permit a British and French fleet to slip into the Black Sea through this narrow waterway, the Allies could then firmly bolster up Rumania and go far toward bluffing the Balkans into halting their supplies of raw materials now going regularly to Germany, notably Rumanian oil up the Danube...