Word: restful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Taxed but far from exhausted by two weeks of day-night vigil, the President journeyed to Hyde Park for a weekend rest. With his mother he drove through the rain to St. James Episcopal Church at Hyde Park, where he heard the Rev. Frank R. Wilson denounce Adolf Hitler, read from the Old Testament (Habakkuk, 2:8): ". . . Because thou hast spoiled many nations, all the remnant of the people shall spoil thee...
...rest of his testimony Comrade Browder warmed over his story, told in 1936. of the offer of a man named Davidson (who said he represented a half-dozen rich Republicans) to enrich the party by $250,000 if it named President Roosevelt on its 1936 ticket, declared the party had turned toward conservatism since 1935, discoursed on its tenets, tactics, tanglements...
...That goes for us!" chorused the rest. A college girl gave young Harvardman Kennedy the ultimatum: "We definitely refuse to go without a convoy...
...this shattering setback, Pan American stuck stoutly to its plan for a regular San Francisco-New Zealand passenger and airmail service. It ordered six Boeing 314s, biggest plane ever assembled in the U. S. (payload: 40 passengers, 5,000 Ibs. of cargo), earmarked three for its transatlantic service, the rest for its Pacific venture. Because Kingman Reef and Pago Pago, Samoa, stops 2 and 3 on its original route, provided inadequate facilities for the huge Boeings, Pan American constructed new landing bases on Canton Island and Noumea, New Caledonia, otherwise held to the same route, which now goes San Francisco...
Only 36% of the U. S.'s $3,000,000,000 annual exports are carried in U. S. bottoms. The rest moves in foreign carriers. (In 1914 the proportion was 9% of $2,000,000,000; World War I almost quadrupled U. S. exports and by 1919 U. S. tonnage increased 60%.) Hence the U. S. merchant fleet of 27,470 vessels (gross tonnage: 14,632,000 tons compared to 12,907,300 tons in 1919) may not be able to keep goods from piling up on U. S. wharves. Not yet seriously affected, U. S. ports were last...