Word: used
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...use of Government stationery for political work...
...use of WPA lists, either of clients or executives, for political purposes...
...Publisher Allen Lane, whose sixpenny paperbound Penguin and Pelican have flooded British newsstands and brought him a fortune, left London for India, Burma and Siam. Purpose: to investigate the possibilities of publishing paper-covered books in Basic English (850 words which "do all the work of 20,000") for use East of Suez...
Charlie Babb got this idea for a flying freight car from the demands of Latin-American customers serving mines, lumber camps and industries in localities accessible only by air. Most of these use giant Curtiss Condors rebuilt as cargo ships. Now busy refitting six Condors to carry mahogany logs out of Yucatan's wilds, Babb hit on the idea of a unique Babb Special. It will have a wing span of 100 feet, twin motors and a cruising speed of 135 m.p.h. Its cargo space will be 35 feet long, 8½ feet wide, 9 feet deep. Through...
...militarism into a strident exponent of Rearmament. Now that the dictators have triumphed at Munich, he declared, "A fascist world can be prevented only, in the words of the manifesto of the Communist International on Nov. 7, 'with the aid of ... governments which are ready to use armed force...