Word: scarp
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Dates: during 1935-1935
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Even with the best of intentions, President Roosevelt is in no position to go far on the road to neutrality. He can only list materials of an obvious military character, such as machine guns and poison gases, while knowing as well as any one-else that oil, scarp iron, and cotton are equally necessary to a country at war and must be withheld for the sake of true neutrality. All the pleading in the world will bore American businessmen as long as they are legally permitted to sell oil to the belligerents...