Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Thus did Funk blast the cartel scheme with which, at last week's Havana conference, the U. S. was trying to build a solid hemisphere front. Well did Herr Funk know that the U. S. (with her exportable surpluses of agricultural products) would not be able to buy enough from South America (which has mainly agricultural products to sell) to provide her with the money to buy the products of U. S. industry. But Germany (and all Europe), which needs food and raw materials, could pay for them with the industrial products South America lacks. Most disquieting thing about...
...which are important. We resent the term "Isolationist" as typical of the "weasel words" used by crooked politicians, for we are trying to be "Realists" as opposed to those whose thinking is based upon a possibly outmoded European setup. We are not Pros for anything except our own general scheme of Democracy, and we see no sense in those who apparently wish us to bite off our nose to spite our face...
...present no sons will go to camp under the Burke-Wadsworth Bill. Hearings were postponed as Congress waited for word from Franklin Roosevelt, who approves the motives of M. T. C. A. but is pondering with Laborite Sidney Hillman an independent scheme for the voluntary training of 460,000 youths in technical defense jobs, and from the War Department, whose enthusiasm for compulsory enlistment is matched by a determination not to be swamped by calling up excessive numbers at the start...
Last week Downtowners had a new scheme. Dr. William Sharpe, president of the medical board, offered the hospital's 125 beds to the British Government for wounded British soldiers. Said Dr. Sharpe: "It is recognized military strategy of the best kind to remove seriously wounded cases as far as possible from the battle line...
Last week East Ohio extricated itself from the dilemma. Proudly announced by President Charles Eugene Gallagher was a scheme that got the storage problem down to three dinky (57-foot) spherical tanks, the expense down to $1,000,000, the fire hazard to zero. The scheme: liquefaction. Against next winter's peak demand. East Ohio will next fall compress natural gas under 600 pounds of pressure, liquefy it by cooling at 250° F. below zero, pour it into insulated sphericals. In the three tanks, Utilitarian Gallagher will have the liquid equivalent of 150,000,000 cubic feet, compressed...