Word: overnight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that the French will too. Last week the French Government was not yet sure of its ally, however, and French statesmen, like the British, were not so specific over Danzig as the Paris (or London) press thought they should be. Nevertheless, the Government was ready to put the nation overnight on a war footing...
Since the World War, European connections had lost a lot of their value as the capital of the financial world moved to the U. S. There was a time when Speyer & Co. could raise $50,000,000 by cable overnight without calling on a single U. S. bank. That was long years after old Philip Speyer had sold millions of dollars worth of U. S. securities abroad to finance the Civil War, made a handsome profit for the house...
Business began to pick up. Canadian Colonial set up its own shop, hired its own pilots. This spring Trans-Canada Airlines went into operation between Montreal and Vancouver, and Janas found himself operating the eastern U. S. link of an overnight run from Manhattan to British Columbia. Meanwhile, a modest advertising appropriation began to get Canadian Colonial its share of traffic between Manhattan and Montreal...
...Shearer and Joan Crawford. M-G-M will also release Producer David O. Selznick's Gone With the Wind. Biggest M-G-M questionmark is fox-faced Hedy Lamarr, who after seven months of grooming at M-G-M was borrowed by Producer Walter Wanger and made an overnight sensation in Algiers. M-G-M has scrapped a Lamarr-Spencer Tracy picture, is now filming a Lamarr-Robert Taylor vehicle, Lady of the Tropics...
...said there would be no European war, and who welcomed Hitler's firming grip on Central Europe because, they said, it would bring order out of chaos there. Exciting to Detroit was the thought that the new Dodge truck plant, world's largest, could be transformed overnight to produce shells, cannon or airplanes. Detroit editors differed with their tycoons: they believed European war inescapable, U. S. participation almost obligatory. Men-in-the-street did not yet take the situation personally, but newsstand sales were far above normal on crisis days...