Word: ironic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...remember being pinned between the gunwale of the lifeboat and a rope which was held taut across my chest. The davits were within a few feet. Beneath me was a tangled mass of ropes, oars, iron and foaming water. I saw the red-faced man disappear into this turmoil, and then I was in it myself. There was a roar of rushing water, which almost but not quite obliterated the noise of screaming...
...clutch of the Allies' octopus-like attack on Germany's economic life. Most important new tentacle of the British Ministry of Economic Warfare, sparkplugged by lean, dapper Ronald Cross, is a trade agreement with Sweden. Coal and textiles ranked high among Sweden's imports from Germany, iron ore and timber were her chief exports to Germany. With coal production in the Saar reduced by France's cannon, and coal deliveries down the Rhine and out of Amsterdam blockaded, Sweden was glad to contract for British coal. With German manufacturers offering more & more ersatz materials, Sweden...
...World War I ended, many students of international affairs were surprised to learn that all during the war years limited trade was carried on by French and German businessmen through Switzerland and by German and British traders through The Netherlands. Last week, in the Chilton Co. steel trade publication Iron Age, Paul Fidrmuc, one of the magazine's correspondents, claimed to have uncovered a similar trading agreement in operation now between warring France and Germany, with neutral Belgium this time the intermediary...
Correspondent Fidrmuc's findings: France recently bought 4,000,000 tons of coal in Belgium, at the same time shipping 6,000,000 tons of iron ore to Belgium. His conclusions: since Belgium can neither supply such an amount of coal nor use that much iron ore, the "assumption is that most of the coal will come from Germany and the iron ore will go to Germany . . . thus furnishing another example of the many abnormalities in this curious...