Word: towards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Navy he proposed to give nearly $800,000,000. Part of this would go toward boosting the Naval Air Force from 1,900 planes to a thundering 3,000. Some would go toward increasing personnel by 1,200 officers, 20,000 men. The bulk of it would go into the most expensive and complicated machines ever devised, modern warships...
...isolationists: "It is our clear duty to further every effort toward peace but at the same time to protect our nation. . . . Such protection is and will be based not on aggression but on defense...
...most desirable first step toward Prosperity, he reported, is "to bring together as soon as possible ... in ... a pact of economic collaboration . . . the principal economic powers . . . France, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Germany and Italy." Not excluding the Soviet Union or Japan or China, but obviously alive to many practical difficulties, M. van Zeeland would simply make a pact "embracing the largest possible number of states, and in any case open...
...courses are conducted on the same level as in college, and may be counted toward degrees here...
...before friends. She can ask him to tell his best story. If that does not work, she can answer back. Or she can become completely silent, or-"this is a blow between the eyes"-she can leave the room. Marjorie Kern's Getting Along Together is directed toward people who are growing old. She preaches the advantages of calm companionship over passionate misery...