Word: third
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unlike the actual belligerents, The Netherlands with its little policeman's army of 100,000 has not the barest fighting chance of defending itself should its borders be violated. And of all the neutrals save the strong and seagirt U. S., The Netherlands, with the world's third most valuable colonial empire, has the most to lose. Invasion by Germany would be the strongest temptation to Japan to seize the rich Netherlands Indies, and the only force on which Queen Wilhelmina could possibly count to prevent such a grab is the British China Squadron based at Singapore...
...materials, the country nevertheless spurred its production of tiles and potteries, radio and electrical appliances, Diesel engines, chemicals. Amsterdam (and Antwerp in Belgium), are the largest diamond-cutting centres of the world, an operation carried on in plants similar to auto factories. Rotterdam developed into the continent's third biggest port for transshipment of goods and houses sizable shipbuilding yards...
Then, in the first few minutes of the third quarter, a Blue Devil, coming out of nowhere, blocked a Carolina punt. The ball bounded off his chest, rolled crazily toward the end zone and, before the bewildered crowd got to its feet, rolled over the goal line with a Blue Devil atop it. From that moment on, Duke played diabolical ball. They intercepted passes, smothered ballcarriers, finally scored another touchdown to shatter Carolina's dreams of the Southern Conference championship and a Bowl-game bid. Duke 13, North Carolina...
Steel production stood at 95%; cotton, wheat and other agricultural products showed strength; the automobile business was booming, except for strike-bound Chrysler; third-quarter reports of U. S. business were sensational; many a dividend check-regular, and extra-was going into the mailman...
...last week's end sales since Jan. 1 on the New York Stock Exchange averaged only 896,517 shares a day compared to 983,577 shares in dull 1938. And the Dow-Jones average of 30 industrials, which stood at 155.92 when the third-quarter earnings reports began to hit the financial pages, hovered around 151-about the non-boom level...