Word: stillness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After picking over this vague patchwork, M.P.s were still skeptical. But when they went home and dug down in their files, they found that Ronald Cross was probably not exaggerating...
...Germany had 35 billion marks invested abroad. After two years of war (August 1916), she still had nearly that much, and found no trouble in getting credit abroad. Today Germany's foreign credit is practically nil. Anything she imports must be paid for in cash or barter. This difference more than offsets the fact that Germany can now trade with two countries which were her enemies in 1916 -Italy and Russia...
...queues and ration cards were in force as today; but delicacies were still obtainable...
...John Reith figured the twice-floundered Corsair still worth a muckle. He sent a fellow Scot, braw George Halliday, Imperial Airways sectional engineer, out from Cairo. By this time the river had gone down and there would not again be enough water for a take-off till spring of 1940. Scot Halliday figured Congo weather would have ruined the Corsair utterly by then...
...make sure the point stuck, next day British authorities in Bermuda dragged sacks of mail from a transatlantic Clipper, began putting it through a thoroughgoing examination. When the Clipper took off for the Azores 24 hours later, more than a ton of mail was still in the hands of the censors. All Secretary of State Cordell Hull could think of to do about this was to hint that the Clippers might stop calling at Bermuda, fly directly from the U. S. to the Azores, as they did before war broke...