Word: returns
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...temptation of invasion, the Swedish Government, over Norwegian protests, allowed a trainload of German food and medical supplies-at least so it was described-to be shipped through Sweden to the beleaguered Germans in Narvik. Also for "humanitarian purposes" the Swedes allowed German merchant seamen marooned in Narvik to return home through Sweden. If any plausible excuse could be provided, Sweden was prepared to placate Germany to avoid...
Rumania. Following a week of tough talk, King Carol weakened and came to terms with Germany's tougher trade negotiator Dr. Karl Clodius. In return for promises of "huge quantities of munitions and squadrons of airplanes," Rumania amended her trade treaty with the Reich and agreed to deplete her own reserves in order to deliver the $8,000,000 worth of wheat ordered by Dr. Clodius a few days before an export embargo was declared. Under Allied pressure, Rumania refused to increase her monthly oil shipments of 130,000 tons to Germany or to re-evaluate her currency...
...average of ten pages, twelve on Sundays. With only a 300,000-ton reserve of newsprint, a ten-week supply of pulp for Britain's mills, a publishers' agreement to reduce all papers to six pages was momentarily expected. Newsdealers are no longer permitted to return unsold papers and it is often practically impossible to buy a morning paper unless one has a standing order with a newsdealer...
...return for the $19,500,000 cost in public funds (1935) of the Mississippi, Warrior and Illinois River systems (said the Eastman report), barge routes saved shippers less than $7,000,000. Last week the Senate-House conference committee agreed to report out the Wheeler-Lea bill, which would put inland water transportation under ICC control...
...which the orders against waste may be interpreted: as a means to fool the efficiency expert, or as the result of a sincere desire to remedy obvious evils as soon as possible, expert or no expert. If the first is true, the College may expect the old troubles to return as soon as Mr. Walsh leaves. If the second, Harvard will soon be getting its money's worth in food and service in the Halls...