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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...planes, increased in army munitions, and more new battleships--not to mention the important and dramatic details--he will be asking for the means of implementing his revitalized foreign policy of resistance to dictatorships. "Implementation" is often merely a convenient euphemism referring to war. And yet, though the fundamental purpose of the new rearmament may be diplomatic and not defensive, it does not follow, as some pacifists and isolationists would have us believe, that the President is leading the country straight...
This should not be the end of the matter. It is not hard to visualize even more "champeenships of champeenships" to come. There is one consideration, though These post-season "classics" may run into the spring practice program...
...Sverdrup, onetime chief of Explorer Roald Amundsen's scientific staff, now head of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in California, who found Arctic sea water warmer in 1931 than it was in 1918. The Northern Hemisphere is still recovering from the last great glaciation of the Ice Age, though for chronological purposes this period is considered to have ended some 20,000 years ago. The continental ice sheet which once covered the northern United States still exists in Greenland where it is still retreating. Despite various speculations, the reason for such climate changes is obscure...
Last week most U. S. businessmen prepared to write off 1938, if not with pleasant memories at least with grim thankfulness. Steel production, at 52% of capacity, was double that of a year ago. The stockmarket, though dawdling, was doing so on a plateau 25% above 1937's year-end levels. Virtually every index of production or distribution-building, power, car loadings -had enjoyed an upward surge...
...wears his handkerchief in his cuff. Still a lonely man (though married), he likes genteel drinks (Burgundy, hock, sherry), games like chess (which he plays badly), rummy and slippery Ann (for low stakes). His undergraduate timidity has carried over into fear of cows and high places, but not of critics. At 50, T. S. looks like an only slightly older brother...