Word: whether
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...goods-whether food or cannon-which are exported to belligerents. Experience of the last great war shows that they might as well be burned or dumped at sea, for little if any real wealth is ever received in payment for them. They are paid for only with promises to pay or with gold, which is virtually as useless, so that war-born prosperity remains an illusion. Even after the war, if debtors try to pay by shipping goods, creditors commonly lock them out by tariffs...
...waters in two challenges for the America's Cup (1934 and 1937). This year both were racing twelve-metre boats (half the size of Cup boats). Along the Esplanade as well as within the Royal Yacht Squadron gates, the No. 1 controversy of the week was whether Sop-with's Tomahawk could beat Vanderbilt...
Either the U. S. cannot prosper with Government spending or it cannot prosper without Government spending, according to the contending factions. The new experiment of which Congress, not the New Deal, is the author, is to see whether the U. S. can get along on a lot less spending...
Believing that Government spending (for new public works, railroad equipment and housing, etc.) is necessary to tide over steel and other durable goods industries the summer and autumn of 1940, New Dealers now count on sagging indices. They asked whether Congress could revive (noted Barren's Index on building stocks was down 7.66% from July 28) July's stockmarket boom...
...Boston, Mass, 30 years ago a chiropodist picked up a toad in his mother's garden, domesticated it, named it Teddy. To find out whether toads had a homing instinct, the chiropodist took Teddy on longer & longer trips, turned him loose. Teddy always came home-though from Dallas, Texas it took him a year. Last week Teddy was set down at Oakland, Calif., began hopping patiently along the railroad tracks toward Boston. The chiropodist expects Teddy home again by April...