Word: unpreparedness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There was a startled silence in the Great Room. For a month, while Poland disintegrated in the East, newsmen in London had stuck to their posts (TIME, Oct. 2), waiting for this moment when the Government would let them join the armies on the Western Front. Now the moment caught...
Another favorite stunt was buying behind the inventory boom: buying pipe-line companies which haven't yet reflected profits from increased oil production; buying chemical stocks like Union Carbide, Air Reduction and Allied Chemical in order to cash in on the inventory boom in the steel and textile industries...
> Canada also scrambled aboard last week, requested King George VI to proclaim that "a state of war exists between Canada and Germany"-which he promptly did. For the time being, Canada will participate in three ways: ship munitions to England, feed airmen into the Royal Air Force, defend herself. The...
*Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau rushed last week from Bergen, Norway, in the Coast Guard cutter George W. Campbell to St. John's, Newfoundland, whence Coast Guard planes relayed him to Washington. Postmaster General Farley, after visiting Poland and France and kissing the "Blarney Stone" in Eire, was...
Only since 1863 has Thanksgiving had a consistent year-to-year day, but football coaches were furious: 30% of them had games scheduled Nov. 30 which would now play to ordinary weekday crowds. Calendar-makers took the blow quietly except for Elliott-Greer Stationery Co. of Amarillo, Tex., which happily...