Word: return
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Italy. Most strategic neutral, Italy was profoundly impressed by Germany's advance ; as the Army reached Warsaw, jeers at Britain filled the Italian press. Although Germany announced that after the Polish victory the Führer would return to Berchtesgaden to have a chat with Italian Ambassador Bernardo Attolico, although the German radio ridiculed attempts to "lure away the Italians from their Teutonic allies," Mussolini...
...resourceful Miss Alice T. Scheh, a Brooklyn high-school stenography teacher, who had an adventure to report to her pupils when she faced them bright & early one morning this week. Having spent the summer traveling alone in Iran and Iraq, Miss Scheh arrived in Italy with a return steamship ticket and a flat purse. Her ship developed "engine trouble," failed to sail. So did other ships to which the Italian Line transferred her. Unable to get either passage or refund from the Italian Line, she hurried to Havre and laid siege to the U. S. Lines office. After ten hours...
Atrocity No. 1 of World War II came just ten hours after Great Britain entered her state of War with Germany.* In the House of Commons, Winston Churchill celebrated his return as First Lord of the Admiralty with a speech in which he said: "It [the Athenia] was certainly torpedoed without the slightest warning and in circumstances which the opinion of the world after the late War-in which Germany concurred-had stigmatized as inhumane. . . .The ship was not armed as an auxiliary cruiser...
...program of action." They nibbled like scared mice at the big cheese of distribution, recommended: strict accuracy in labeling and advertising, consumer education, commodity research, careful cost analysis of distribution industries. To meet increasingly costly conveniences offered by retailers (credit, free delivery, Smith girls behind the counter, swank salesrooms, return privileges), they suggested "differential pricing," by which an article would have several prices, according to the number of these conveniences a consumer wanted to pay for. Judged undesirable: monopoly, legislative attacks on chain stores, and State legislation discriminating against out-of-State business...
...British pound. The precipitate markdown in the price of the pound sterling (it hit $4.12 early this week) makes British goods some 10% cheaper in world markets than they were August 1. If the crisis passes without the war the pound is not likely soon to return to $4.86 or even $4.68. So unless the dollar is competitively devalued U. S. manufacturers will face new British underselling. If Argentina, Australia and other crop exporters (in the sterling area) also mark down their currencies, as is likely, their cotton, grains and meats will grow cheaper, intensifying the U. S. crop crisis...