Word: suddenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Crown Colony in the event of a showdown. British commercial interests-such as the $50,000,000 Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corp.-and the private property of the 16,000-odd British residents of Hong Kong are not deemed to be worth fighting losing battles for. Furthermore, prospect of sudden inclusion of the Comintern in the Anti-Comintern Front (see p. 21) was bound to be as much of a shock to Britain as to Japan. For if a German-Russian-Italian-Japanese bloc is its eventual result, Japan will be able to stop fretting about the Russian menace...
...sudden change of heart brought these strange bedfellows together. They were alarmed at the calamities mounting up for The Netherlands' empire-four Cabinet crises in three months, a threat to the rich Netherlands Indies with every increase of Japanese influence in Asia, pressure from Germany, a mounting financial panic at home. Two days after they took office Jonkheer de Geer's gravity was justified. The Netherlands' leading investment banking house closed its doors...
Alarmed by the sudden drop, the Government has been urging women to marry early, bear often. Alarmed, too, by the gaps left by warriors departed for China, it has urged women into jobs. On farms they have virtually supplanted men. Factories, particularly heavy industries, are hiring more & more...
...sudden the magazine was taken up by a bunch of sporting socialites and began going great guns. Oliver Davis ("Three Dagger") Keep, who had been promotion manager of The Condé Nast Publications Inc., bought control and, later joined by a rich college (Williams) friend named Archbold Van Beuren, began promoting Cue all over the Metropolitan area. Now a 58-page "Weekly Magazine of New York Life," jamful of information about everything from radio programs to de luxe cruises, Cue this week became a full-size (7 ⅞ x 11 ¼ in.) magazine and published its first national edition...
...many sudden changes of management and control were apparently too much for the old auction house. Last fortnight creditors who had consigned its goods for sale demanded their money. Last week New York City's Commissioner of Licenses Paul Moss suspended its license. Meanwhile, the Parke-Bernet Galleries stepped in, leased the building on Madison Avenue from the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., its owner, prepared to carry on the old building under their new name...