Word: system
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...State Cordell Hull have patiently, persistently struggled to overcome: 1) Argentina's historic dominance by Great Britain, 2) Argentine fears of U. S. imperialism, 3) Argentine insistence that the U. S. lift its 1930 ban on imports of pampas beef, 4) Argentina's across-the-table system of bilateral trade, 5) Argentina's able, egotistic Foreign Minister, Saavedra Lamas...
Argentina suddenly changed its trade system to one of import control, freezing foreign exports to Argentina at 1934-36 levels, then setting import quotas. With this Argentina shift toward multilateral trade, Sumner Welles in Washington and Minister Lamas in Buenos Aires could announce with good grace a proposed trade agreement...
...contingents were grave and grim. Fathers wearing 1914-18 Croix de Guerre, wives with strained faces, saw them off. Next day two more categories were called up. These were more cheerful, going to join their comrades, calculating that their job would be primarily defensive, to hold the most massive system of forts ever built, mostly underground. In two days and nights, Daladier moved between 500,000 and 600,000 troops to France's eastern border from Paris and other cities of the north, to join a million or more already there. All private munitions factories were taken over...
Great Britain, "at two hours after zero," planned to run for cover with its entire domestic radio system, using "wired wireless" over telephone and electric power lines. This system would be proof against any sort of interference except a direct hit on a central transmitter. For that sort of emergency, BBC has already set up stand-by transmitting apparatus in secluded spots away from England's easily bomb-sighted industrial centres. BBC's war emergency plans also included shutting down its television transmitters, releasing the ultra-high frequencies for special military services...
...Germany, too, has a wired wireless system under way, and adaptation of all People's Radios for wire transmission has already been made obligatory...