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Kokomo hoped by its census to get more defense orders (its seven big factories had only $3,000,000 worth), thus to stave off priorities unemployment. In the process it resurrected the fact that the U.S. is a land of skills, and that there is more than one way to break a bottleneck...
...March, 1930, Bruening became Chancellor of the Weimar Republic, with a coalition of moderates as his supporters in the Reichstag. He was pledged to support of the 1919 peace treaties and the Streseman policy of France-German rapprochement, but sought to abolish reparations to stave off national monetary collapse...
...rising clamor for a separate, independent U.S. air force last week impelled the War Department to take action. Reporting this action to Congress, in an effort to stave off more drastic changes, Secretary of War Stimson announced...
...much as to be called in to be the savior of Islam. Last week he got his first bid. According to Rome reports, Seyid Rashid Ali El-Gailani asked him, through the mediation of Italian Minister Luigi Gabbrielli, to come and save Iraq. In a desperate effort to stave off the Near East crisis, Turkey offered to mediate the undeclared war, but Turkey was fast being pulled out of its pro-British orientation, and the British, mistrusting Moslem mediation of a Moslem vexation, turned the offer down. If the Iraq Incident was not the beginning of the Holy...
Without attempting to minimize the seriousness of Britain's present position in the Mediterranean, the British minister expressed his belief that reinforcements would arrive in time from East Africa to stave off the invasion of Egypt...