Word: zero
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Schacht refuses to understand," wailed a close friend of Dr. Goebbels. "He has cut to zero the sums we may transmit out of the Fatherland for enlightenment abroad." In their sorrow Dr. Goebbels' somewhat naíve henchmen then revealed a fact?utterly staggering if it were a fact. They said blandly that Dr. Goebbels has been spending on propaganda abroad 200,000,000 marks or $80,000,000 a year, nearly $10,000 per hour, night & day. Since this would be enough to pay the interest for over two years on the Dawes and Young bonds now belligerently defaulted...
...sheets of the Supreme Court to them. They liked blood and thunder so I read them the records of criminal trials. Since they were youngsters they have carried guns and are expert marksmen. Once, when they threw the Christmas tree through the front window when the weather was near zero, it was hard not to say anything. But I didn't even turn my head...
...bluffer of international finance. Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, President of the Reichsbank and newly created ''Economic and Financial Tsar," suddenly issued a manifesto to the effect that "Germany, if necessary, can dispense with all raw material imports." This presumably was the opening move of Dr. Schacht, who always starts from zero, in a game to jockey the British cotton men into consenting to part payment on what they are owed and speculating on further shipments to Germany...
...Louis carries water from 691,000 sq. mi. of territory. It is normally lowest in winter when ice holds moisture back in the headwaters. It is normally highest between April and July. In June 1929 it was at top level, even with its banks, 30.8 ft. above the zero mark on the Weather Bureau's gauge. There was no June rise this year. In July the river fell more than six inches. Last week it was zero, an all-time low for July. "Never before," declared the Weather Bureau, "has there been such a general drying up of streams...
...very centre of the paralyzed region, in his office at San Francisco's City Hall, sat Mayor Angelo Rossi. The clock on his desk ticked up to 8:01 a. m. That was the zero hour for organized labor to begin the nation's biggest general strike since 1919. For months the U. S. had been hearing talk of such a wholesale walkout. "Wolf!" cried the country when the Detroit automobile tool & die strike faded. "Wolf!" it cried when a Minneapolis truckmen's strike went no farther. "Wolf!" it cried when a general strike failed to materialize in Toledo. "Wolf...