Word: using
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Westrick's proposals are "plausible and businesslike!" We lend them five billion; they use it to buy back goods from us. Our "security" is two billion in gold that we can't use and would never see anyway, because it would remain in the vaults of the Fuhrerbank (formerly the Bank of France). And as a special concession we are graciously allowed to lower our tariffs to let subsidized Nazi exports...
...would come across Spain, which was less likely than ever to interfere, in view of Britain's plan announced last week to extend the blockade to all Spanish and Portuguese ports. Sir Clive's gravest concern was as to whether and when the Axis would get the use of Spain's huge German-built coastal guns over behind Algeciras and at Fort Hacho on the African shore...
Japan reacted to the embargo violently, but alert Foreign Minister Matsuoka was a jump ahead of his own countrymen. He instructed Ambassador to the U. S. Kensuke Horinouchi to call on Sumner Welles and lodge a protest. He instructed Spokesman Suma to use strong words. That master of anticlimax told reporters: "Our reaction will be very great." But the most serious thing Yosuke Matsuoka did was to let word get about that Japan might have to retaliate by cutting off U. S. supplies of rubber and tin from the East Indies...
...propellers manufactured in Germany. He believes that German torpedo boats now fighting in the English Channel are equipped with cycloidals, and he wishes they weren't because he is a rabid Hitler-hater. But he observed last week that there is still time for the U. S. to use cycloidal propulsion for airplanes. Two cycloidals mounted on either side of the fuselage with blades projecting laterally would make possible a wingless, almost noiseless plane capable of short landings and take-offs like an autogiro (see cut). Professor Kirsten believes it could fly 500 m.p.h...
...value of labor in all countries that had to trade with him, would have perfected a streamlined form of international slavery. But though he has demonstrated that Nazi collectivism can wage war, he has yet to show it will work in peace. Gold, he granted, would still have a use in settling international balances. But nations use gold primarily because it is prized by individuals. Dr. Funk's aspersion of the U. S.'s "marbles" suggested that even in Germany, there are still individuals who prize them...