Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...loving No. 2 Nazi Hermann Wilhelm Göring had decided to attend the Coronation next May, Ambassador von Ribbentrop announced that the Reich is spending ?100,000 ($500,000) to enlarge its London Embassy by throwing three great houses into one. Last week this work was going at rush pace and in the House of Commons loud protests were made by Laborite M. P.'s because British workmen were not in on it. Over from Germany, the Baron had brought some 145 bronzed and healthy Nazi workmen. Not only did they fail to correspond to anti-Nazi descriptions...
...good of cheap power. Then, starting with 5,000 customers, he launched a campaign to buy up the private companies, continually forcing the issue with direct competition. The Power Bureau would merely string a line down a street parallel to the private lines, offer lower rates, wait for the rush of customers. The private companies could not meet the price without lowering rates in the whole territory. In 1922, after furious litigation, Southern California Edison had to capitulate, selling out to the city...
Five Minutes, Under orders from Reichspropaganda-minister P. J. Goebbels, every German store and factory had ceased activity, every radio loudspeaker in the Fatherland was supposed to be on the nationwide Reichstag hookup. Messengers and street sweepers were under orders to drop everything and rush into the nearest cinema where sound apparatus was attuned to Der Führer, and in iron tones the whole German people were told: "There can be no excuse for not having listened to every word spoken by our beloved Leader, Adolf Hitler...
...keep Britain's colossal rush-Rearmament program (TIME, March 30 et seq.) on schedule is Sir Thomas' awful responsibility and last week some M.P.'s hurled in his face that "Rearmament is two years behind!" A great churchman, Sir Thomas reprovingly reminded everyone that Britain is firm in her adherence to the principles of Christ. There were some gasps when Sir Thomas went so far as to say, "Rearmament is not the Government's objective!" but he got away with it. Finally he admitted to the House with suave authority that the British Rearmament program...