Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago Designer Stafford tried to interest the Defense Ministry in civilian camouflage but met indifference. Later, the Government perked up its ears. Since September Mr. Stafford and his artists have busied themselves developing techniques for "painting out" vulnerable buildings. Their first step is to obtain aerial photographs of all aspects of a building and to study the surrounding countryside. Then the expert camouflagers build and camouflage a scale model before the actual building is tackled...
...Britain the step marked the end of a six years' effort, to get along with Adolf Hitler. Time after time Führer Hitler has torn up treaties, ignored agreements, threatened neighboring States with invasion. As many times Britain has looked the other way. When, three weeks ago, the Führer moved into a Czechoslovakia which he had already dismembered last autumn, even the most credulous of British statesmen were shocked. They recognized then that Herr Hitler had embarked on a policy of conquest aimed at nothing less than domination of Europe, if not the world. Last week...
...British Government last week edged one short step forward to the adoption of the dread Continental system of universal conscription of men for military training. In the House of Commons Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain announced plans for another attempt to increase Britain's armed forces by voluntary enrollment. Although the Prime Minister said that "we have not by any means yet exhausted what can be done by voluntary service," the House and the nation had the impression the failure of this scheme (plus another Adolf Hitler coup) would probably mean full conscription at last...
...Government cedes Northern Ireland to Eire; 5) a unified Irish Republic is formed, which will be so anti-British that it will take sides against Britain in the next big war. So far, of course, I. R. A.'s eccentric machine has worked only so far as Step 2. The British people have been angered but not scared by the Army, which is illegal in both Eire and Britain. Last week's trial was the severest measure England has yet taken to keep the machine from working...
...Paris. There & then, at the Café de Paris, they launched the dancing era by performing to the extraordinary sounds of Too Much Mustard. Within the next five years, the Castles became by far the most celebrated dancing personages of their era. They popularized the Maxixe, the One-Step, the Castle Walk. They opened a chain of four ballrooms and made about $15,000 a week. When Irene Castle bobbed her hair, a million other U. S. women aped her. Vernon Castle enlisted in the Royal Flying Corps in 1916. When he was killed in a crash at Fort Worth...