Word: steeled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feed to the starving livestock. The Battaglia del Grano, the Wheat Battle, of 1938 is lost. Three-fourths of Italy's bread requirements will have to be bought abroad with "old, the gold wrung from meagre exports and the tourist trade, the gold earmarked for coal, oil, steel, copper, nickel, tin -for a thousand commodities Italy lacks and must have to swagger and grab and fight like a great power...
...worth, money flows freely. The people are well dressed, well fed, fairly well housed. At parades, reviews, unveilings, cornerstone Mayings, a, busy, eager nation is always on its toes to cheer Mussolini, the King, and the flag, even though every mail box is sealed tight with steel baffles when the two heads of the Empire visit their loyal Milano. Bombs and infernal machines have exploded in these boxes. For ten days preceding Hitler's arrival no parcels will be delivered or handled in the cities he is to visit...
...snowcapped, towering Andes, operates on a budget ostensibly balanced, but one which does not show its borrowings and its failure to service its sizable debt. Sweden and Finland are the only two nations with orthodox balanced budgets. Almost self-sufficient in raw materials except for wheat, rice and steel, Peru enjoys a favorable foreign trade balance ($35,400,000 in 1936) largely through extensive exports of cotton, sugar, silver, oil, copper, vanadium and the high-smelling guano (bird manure). Social reforms were pushed by the late, ironfisted, dapper little President Augusto Bernardino Leguia (1919-30), who borrowed heavily to build...
...Like a steel-blue knife blade pressed flat into the heathery Scottish highlands lies 22½-mile Loch Ness. Natives of the district have for centuries been seeing kelpies, bogies, wills-o'-the-wisp. Relatively young, relatively real to the outside world is "Nessie," the lake's mysterious monster, "seen" every season since...
...first baby giant panda last week was occasion for a greeting such as transatlantic fliers once got. But three days earlier, Chicago's Daily News published an article which suggested that giant pandas are not so rare and valuable as the U. S. considers them. Archibald T. Steel, crack China War correspondent, reported taking a day off from the battle front to explore panda territory. Excerpts: "Pandas are not rare. . . . Giant panda prices, f.o.b. Chengtu, range between 25 and 180 American dollars per head, although the latter is regarded locally as fabulously high.*. . . Panda pelts are a drug...