Word: turnabout
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Reason for this turnabout: it is safer and easier to ship coffee 1,600 miles from Colombia to New Orleans than 6,000 miles up the Atlantic from Rio. But Brazil will not be the loser. Brazilian bigwigs in São Paulo last week announced that the Good-Neighborly U.S. would buy up all Brazilian coffee not shipped by September's end. That will give Brazil a credit of over $25,000,000 on U.S. banks and give the U.S. a credit of perhaps 2,000,000 bags in Brazilian warehouses...
...Russia, fewer than twelve U.S. cinemansions were showing Soviet films. As Russian resistance to Hitler's onslaught rose, so did Americans' curiosity. At present nearly 200 theaters are playing Soviet pictures, 2,000 carry their short subjects. Variety, the bible of U.S. show business, recently made this turnabout official, crowed in its Blitzkrieg jargon: Vodka Films...
Last fall Field Marshal von Brauchitsch had advised digging in for the Russian winter. Adolf Hitler had insisted on maintaining a double offensive against Moscow and the Caucasus. More recently, since the failure of his Russian designs, Hitler had proposed a turnabout invasion of Britain. This had been opposed by all his top commanders, all proud veterans of Germany's aristocratic military caste-Field Marshals von Brauchitsch, Fedor von Bock, Ritter Wilhelm von Leeb, Gerd von Rundstedt. They had now been dismissed or had "resigned" or were "gravely ill." The self-proclaimed Oberste Befehlshaber was left to carry...
...dust, and sacrificing his ideals of mine-reform for the frustrating and impotent life of schoolmaster in his native hamlet. Novelist Cronin is a scientist, and the generally powerful plot of this movie goes back to his painstaking delineation of character. But when scenario-writers-in the inconceivably heroic turnabout of the mine-owner, Barras, and again in a superfluous and mystical epilogue-attempt to expand a stirring argument for public ownership into a vague essay on the goodness of man, they over step logical bounds...
...before President Roosevelt boarded his train, it became clear that he had not made a complete turnabout on aid to other democracies. A terse White House announcement-coming on the heels of Japan's peace treaty with her puppet Nanking regime-made known that the U. S. had arranged to make $100,000,000 available to China. Half of this would come from the Treasury's stabilization fund to support Chinese currency ; half would be put up by the Export-Import Bank, against Chinese shipments of wolframite (tungsten ore), antimony, tin, for the U. S. strategic materials stockpile...