Word: spite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...battleships anchored in Wilhelmshaven, Cuxhaven and Brunsbüttel, with the sinking of one and damaging of another battleship claimed. Last week the Royal Air Force retorted to the Nazis' North Sea raids by sending bombers to Helgoland. The British story about this was: "In spite of formidable anti-aircraft fire, the attacks were pressed home at low altitude [i. e., dive bombing]. Some of our aircraft have not yet returned." The Germans claimed they shot down five out of six British planes, suffered no damage...
...reprisals against the U. S. (against U. S. shipping, for example), thereby drawing the U. S. into war. Rebuttal: The Nazis have been and always will be angry with the U. S. whenever it suits them. They are just as likely to take reprisals against the U. S. in spite of the arms embargo, for from a military standpoint, it is just as important to them to shut off the Allies from food and the materials from which arms are made as from arms themselves...
...Nazi Germany it is verboten to listen to foreign broadcasts. Last week the British were planning a program that they hoped Germans would listen to in spite of prohibitions: Names of Nazi prisoners and dead and wounded identified by the Allies will be rushed to London from the front, broadcast to Germany on BBC's daily medium-wave news periods in German...
...spite of this they think that present U. S. tariffs on manufactured products should be higher (26.6%), lower (10.7%), the same (34.5%). Retailers are slightly more on the high side than manufacturers (for whose benefit tariffs are chiefly supposed to exist) and most strikingly big business is on the low side while small Business is on the high side. Among big manufacturers (over $50,000,000), 7.2% favor higher tariffs with or without qualifications, 32.1% favor lower tariffs with or without qualifications, 25% for no change; small (under $1,000,000) business votes 41.6% for higher tariffs, 9.9% for lower...
Hoping that, in spite of all, TIME will live to tell another tale...