Word: conundrum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Actually, Britain is boss of the waves to a greater extent than in 1914, when the German Navy was second in the world, not sixth. But air menace makes the value of England's navy a conundrum, the tradition of Nelson a question mark. London, nerve-centre of the Empire, is 330 miles closer to German airports than Berlin is to English airports. British aircraft and munitions factories are easy targets in the open. And in another war Britain's food supply from overseas may be threatened by air raiders as well as submarine raiders...
...German funsters, like Russians, are still willing to risk their necks with political wisecracks. A recent conundrum which they thought sidesplitting: "What is the difference between Russia and Germany?" Answer: "Russia is much colder...
Shortly it seemed the Vatican might be doubling Archbishop Cicognani's fist, raising it for a blow. From Director Giulio Castelli of Rome's La Corrispondenza news agency came still another explanation of the Coughlin conundrum in which everyone seemed to be contradicting everyone else as to just where the Detroit priest stood with Rome: "The bishop came and received from the Vatican the most precise and unmistakable instructions that cannot be misunderstood-namely, to moderate the ardor of an orator who should have refrained from attacks of a political character, especially personal, and also renounce the forming...
...Townsend is in my opinion a public benefactor. He has succeeded in inventing a conundrum which reduces to absurdity a whole mass of ideas that have had great vogue during the depression. . . . They all derive from the same notation, spent which is more that they if would people be richer. worked . . less . The depression itself is the most drastic limitation of production ever experienced. The population on relief is the largest number of people ever supported in idleness. If there were any truth whatever in the theory that a nation can become prosperous by not producing, then the depression itself...
...Teaser. When the directors of General Electric Co. sat down in Manhattan last week for their regular monthly meeting, they had before them a teasing corporate conundrum. What could their company do with $60,900,000 cash and $50,976,000 in marketable securities on the last financial statement? It did not take a director to see that 1) in the present cheap money market G. E. could not earn enough on cash and Governments to offset what it has to pay out in fixed dividends on special stock and interest on bonds, and 2) that no new orders...