Word: supporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Supply of skilled labor is another "critical problem" of the mobilization of industry for war, Colonel Rutherford said. Despite present widespread unemployment, there would still be shortages in many skilled crafts, and the government is considering giving encouragement and support to training and apprenticeship systems in industry...
...base figures of American industrial production indicate that our facilities are fully adequate for probable war needs, and indeed that "there was ample unused capacity during the period 1920-35 to support a major war," Colonel Rutherford held. The United States is self-sufficient in most of the raw materials needed for munitions, and has begun to stock up on those whose importation might be stopped...
...film, "Fifth Avenue Girl" does have numerous entertaining moments, particularly the scenes of nocturnal love in Central Park. Excellent acting by the leading players also contributes towards making up at least in part for the weak plot; Miss Rogers is as luscious and lovely as ever and receives able support from Walter Connolly, the harried, home-loving financier who prefers beef stew to champagne...
Hicks states that "the occasion of my resignation is the Soviet-German pact" but he continues that he cannot condemn nor support the pact because he does not know "what is going on in Europe...
...noted Communist author in his statement reiterates his faith in his Communist beliefs and his support of the Soviets, saying "I cannot now defend the pact, but I can conceive of history's justifying it . . . After all, the Soviet Union is a Socialist commonwealth, and, even if it makes mistakes, its fate is of the utmost concern to every believer in socialism...