Word: reale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...believe in the real neutrality of our nation in the case of any armed conflict...
...there are few conflicts in which the U. S. people are neutral at heart. Their special neutrality is a basic disinclination to commit mass murder and be its victim. But there can be no guarantee of neutrality in any words, whether of mandatory legislation or of traditional international law. Real neutrality exists in the hearts of men-and if men take sides they may fight...
...city's 200,000 acres of land and its buildings are valued at more than $21,000,000,000. It includes 841,716 parcels of taxable property, 458,597 private homes, 1,118 grain elevators, 141,808 apartment buildings. Owning real estate is not a paying business in New York City, what with taxes, oversupply (particularly in office space), maintenance...
Irony of the Syndicate's sudden discovery that it had a real rival in the U. S. potash industry is the fact that U. S. production has been subsidized by no tariff. Had the foreign producers not set up monopoly prices, the U. S. industry might have grown more slowly, but the Cartel's greed was all the "protection" that the infant industry needed. The Syndicate's final stupidity was to maintain its prices during the 1938 depression. As a result its sales to the U. S. fell from 351,445 tons to 193,609 tons...
...corn-belt customers were invited to come and get their $267,000 on deposit. To its depositors, the bank promised full payment, to its stockholders, the $10,000 capital they put up 33 years ago to found the bank, plus $21,000 surplus and undivided profits, $11,000 in real estate. Yawning, the local farmers let their money be, figuring that they would take their 2½% interest as long as possible...