Word: ironically
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...whisked on for a 53-mile, 12-stop trek up the Monongahela, on the way to Steel. Past burning blast furnaces, past stacks belching columns of black, profitable smoke, along the river with its flat, grimy coal barges, the railroad tracks with their chuffing, endless trainloads of coal and iron-on up through the tough steel towns went Wendell Willkie. The workers listened. There were boos; but everywhere they listened: at Hays, at Homestead (scene of the 1892 massacre), at Duquesne, Clairton, Wilmerding. Solid walls of factories blossomed with masses of dirty-faced workers, like tenement flowerpots, who cheered...
...dozen. Italy had one all ready: border strife between Greece and Albania. Troop concentrations threatened a major short circuit at that partly burned-out fuse last week. The way had also been paved by the partition of Rumania and the abdication of King Carol. By last week the Iron Guard's revolution in Rumania had been completed, and a full division of German troops was reported moving...
...London's problems from having lived in its slums and having battled to get rid of them while running the London County Council. Succeeding Morrison in the key post of Minister of Supply was cold, shrewd Sir Andrew Rae Duncan, chairman of the Executive Committee of the British Iron and Steel Federation, who moved up from Presidency of the Board of Trade. Into the Board of Trade went handsomely mustached Captain Oliver Lyttelton, who, before the war, was managing director of British Metal Corp. and held enough other directorates-including one with the German Metallgesellschaft A.-G.-to bring...
Economically the French kept Indo-China in swaddling clothes. They had done little with the colony's extensive deposits of iron ore, tin, antimony, wolframite, manganese and zinc. But from the concentrated cultivation of rice and rubber and the sale to the natives of manufactured goods made in France, more than three billion francs went to France from Indo-China every year. The native standard of living remained one of the lowest in the world. The harvest of this policy was hate. A recent straw vote taken in a native high school revealed that, of 300 boys, only...
...Atlantic Ocean than it is from the Crimea in the eastern half of the map. The Hungarian Plain-the fringes of which are shared by Germany, Yugoslavia and Rumania is roughly as large as the northern half of France. After the Danube escapes from this plain through the Iron Gate it emerges into another plain, the northern part of which belongs to Rumania, the southern part to Bulgaria. But the biggest and most fertile plain of all begins at the eastern slopes of the Carpathians and rolls eastward across the black soils of the Ukraine to the steppes east...