Word: towards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Works Projects' Commissioner Francis C. ("Pink") Harrington, with a reduced appropriation ($1,477,000,000) pared his rolls from 2,200,000 as of last week toward 1,800,000 by mid-September. By September i he must discharge 650,000 (one in three) WPAsters who have been on the rolls 18 months or longer. Off "on furlough" must go 56,500 of Ohio's 166,700; 62,200 of Pennsylvania's 153,000; 22,900 of New Jersey's 67,900; 22,400 of California's 89,800; 11,200 of Alabama...
...then he had a talk with German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop about "fateful problems," from which he came away "very depressed." By the time he had reached Oslo, he was in a towering funk. "My impressions of Europe are terrifying. . . . Europe is drifting toward war. . . . America will go to war ... if the British Fleet is defeated. . . . I believe we can expect war at any moment. . . . August...
...factor in Axis policy. Facing Germany and old Austria in the North, Italy across the Adriatic (and presently in Albania), with over 60% of her exports going to Germany and Italy, Yugoslavia stayed out of the Anti-Comintern Pact, turned down a British guarantee, pledged herself to maintain neutrality toward Italy and Germany in the event...
...Baltic Plain is glacial country. When the ice cap was inching out over Europe, drainage toward the north was blocked; hence the plain is now crisscrossed-by old river beds that run from east to west, by rivers that now flow into the North and Baltic Seas. The new river beds and the old connecting valleys make it relatively easy for soldiers to roll across the Baltic Plain in any direction. Germany's soldiers rolled against Russia in 1914 on railroad lines built especially to serve strategic purposes. On the Russian side of the border railroafls were...
...Orleans after the Yankees captured the city, Colonel Carter found his playful love affair with Lillie growing serious, married her despite his need for money, the political favoritism that blocked his promotion, her father's fear of him, her sophisticated New Orleans aunt's frank advances toward him. As sardonic a figure as Rhett Butler in Gone With the Wind, but far more plausible, Colonel Carter became a drinker without believing he drank, sold government supplies without believing he was dishonest, and-before Lillie's baby was born-drifted into a love affair with Lillie...