Word: returning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most sense-making of the orations Lammot du Pont pointed out that for private industry to create jobs for 3,000,000 workers required investment of at least $25,000,000,000- money invested "a year, two years, perhaps even ten years in advance of any hope of return." And Business could probably raise the money if given "a reasonable degree of certainty" on such things as labor, taxes, legislation. What the rules were themselves was not so important. Said...
...keep their Chinese subjects quiet only by an outlay of money,--for Japanese gendarmes to maintain order, for puppet Chinese armies of soldiers who must be fed in order to keep them from banditry (a form of unemployment relief), and for public industrial works to make the conquered territory return a profit to Japan...
Since his appointment two weeks ago, Nee has been exercising here and will report in top physical condition. He will return to Cambridge immediately following the game...
...until the fuller significance of the thing is grasped; it is an answer, almost a rebuke, to James Hilton; it shows in no uncertain terms how dreadfully dull Shangri-la would be in actual operation, how inevitably the inmates would be in actual operation, how inevitably the inmates would return to the World...
...years after sanctions were imposed has been commonly attributed to a lingering hope for British friendship. The final break is presumably an abandonment of that hope; but there is reason to believe that the latch-key is still out. Were the democracies to present Italy a united front, demanding return to active cooperation with the League and offering both sorely needed capital and other economic concessions, she would undoubtedly accept. A similar adjustment of Germany's problems can be made; but the co-operation of the United States is essential...