Word: rearmaments
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...House of Commons, after hearing how upsurging new jobs are going to be provided in the Depressed Areas by Rearmament, rushed through vote after vote last week the enabling bill under which His Majesty's Government are going to borrow ?400,000,000 ($2,000,000,000) for Rearmament. In rapid succession Crown ministers representing the fighting services asked such sums as $410,000,000 for the Army, $525,000,000 for the Navy and spoke casually of setting up "14 new munitions factories." Meanwhile the first long-expected "returning prosperity strike" in the Rearmament industry had suddenly immobilized...
Although British Labor M. P.'s know their constituents are eager for Rearmament jobs, they know these toilers are also for Peace, and at the tail-end of last week's debate Labor Party Leader Major Clement Attlee mustered practically his followers' full strength behind a motion to censure the Baldwin Cabinet on the grounds that their Rearmament program is: 1) dealing a blow to the League of Nations; 2) raising the cost of living in the United Kingdom, 3) preparing the way for an eventual new Depression more disastrous than the last. By a vote...
Staying There. In London speculative bookings, not only of hotel rooms but of seats from which to view the Coronation Procession, have surged in wild fluctuations and last week continued erratic. Nevertheless London is such a rearmament boom town in 1937 that, even if nobody came to the Coronation-and by lowest estimates 2,100,000 are coming*-the hotels would be overcrowded as they were last spring and summer, the theatres jammed and head waiters (usually Italians in the swankest English places) as cocky as in 1929. Today in London almost no top-class hotel rooms for Coronation time...
With the announcement that Italy will not let herself be outdistanced by Great Britain's vast rearmament program comes the realization that the "armament race" is on in earnest. Mussolini is going to try to equal the preparations made by his chief rival in the Mediterranean, and a hint that this will prove no easy task appears in the warning of the Fascist Grand Council that this army mean a "total sacrifice of civil to military needs...
...Government was not yet stealing doorknobs but was so crucially short of metal for Rearmament that President Roosevelt had to call for action...