Word: questionable
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...categorically declared that a merger of the North German Lloyd and the Hamburg American Line is entirely out of the question, and moreover that such a transaction would not be advantageous. Neither company would have reached its present development if it had not maintained its independence. This independence the General Directors are determined to preserve, even against possible pressure from without...
...mere limitation of armaments; and 2) reduction according to a mathematical formula, the "Hoover yardstick." Furthermore the principal achievement of Messrs. Hoover and MacDonald at Washington was their public joint statement exalting the Kellogg Pact as the cornerstone of peace and disarmament, and their private decision that the question of "freedom of the seas" should not be raised at the London conference...
...French note asserts that to arrive at "naval agreement presupposes an understanding on the question of freedom of the seas" and says...
...Pope in his second encyclical letter within a week. Reviewing the spiritual achievements of the year, he mentioned: concordats with Portugal, Rumania, Prussia; abatement of the persecution of priests in Mexico; new religious institutions in Rome: Lombard College, Russian College, Czechoslovakian College, Ethiopian Seminary; the settlement of the Roman question. Said he: "This happy termination opened a new era, in which Catholic Italy and the whole world rejoiced. Old prejudices have been forgotten by many in the peace with the Holy See." Added the Pope: His Golden Jubilee, technically ending Jan. 1, 1930, would be extended to June...
...obstacles seem almost insurmountable, but many have been solved, and those that remain very likely will be in time. The difficulty of fusing quartz for so large a mirror at the great temperature required, the problem of supplying heat for such an undertaking, and the ultimate question of how to mount such a heavy thing without having it bend and distort the curvature--all these are as yet not definitely solved, but they will soon be considered...