Word: toward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...might ask U. S. Marines to come into the International Settlement and do something the Japanese love to do-restore order. Puppet-elect Wang Ching-wei, popping in and out of his fortified castle in Shanghai's "badlands," announced he was "satisfied that Japan's peace conditions toward China do not infringe on China's sovereignty or territorial rights...
...shipping industries Swedish capital, while not operating under laissez-faire conditions, is given a fairly free swing to charge what the traffic-mostly foreign-will bear. Last year Swedish exporters of forest products and iron and steel did a $300,230,880 business, keeping the foreign trade balance weighted toward Sweden...
...After an unofficial send-off from Admirer Auslander at the Library of Congress, the Pilgrimage got under way last Sunday. Pilgrim Malone visited the room in the Roger Brooke Taney house at Frederick, Md. which Francis Scott Key used to frequent, broadcast chattily of the old medico whose truculence toward the British got Key in the prison-ship predicament that inspired his deathless ditty...
...North Beach airport, the movie show was replaced by a ground view of the landing field, with a plane coming down to land. The passengers watched the screen idly, then suddenly came to life. "That's us," someone shouted. It was. Plane and image landed neatly together, taxied toward the apron, where the NBC-RCA mobile unit was parked with its roving eye televising the whole business...
Whether the war boom is a stimulant that will give Business a lift toward permanent recovery or will only give it a hangover, is a prime question for economists to argue. Last week in an address to industrial leaders summoned by General Motors' Alfred P. Sloan Jr., in Manhattan, Dr. Harold G. Moulton, pudgy president of Brookings Institute explained his view...