Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Last week Congressman Melvin J. Maas, of St. Paul, Minn., proposed that the U. S. Navy build 80,000-ton battleships - nearly twice the size of two mighty monsters now on the way. Horrified admirals paid attention to Mr. Maas only because: 1) he is the ranking Republican on the House Naval Affairs Committee; and 2) his remarks were symptomatic of a tendency on the part of Navy-minded Congressmen to dream for themselves...
...That peace is being secretly arranged on the basis that Great Britain, France and Germany will unite in attacking the Soviet Union-this being so frequently talked of in British ruling-class circles that by last week it was almost out of the rumor category...
Years after World War I ended, many students of international affairs were surprised to learn that all during the war years limited trade was carried on by French and German businessmen through Switzerland and by German and British traders through The Netherlands. Last week, in the Chilton Co. steel trade publication Iron Age, Paul Fidrmuc, one of the magazine's correspondents, claimed to have uncovered a similar trading agreement in operation now between warring France and Germany, with neutral Belgium this time the intermediary...
...Before the war the Mexican Government bartered for German machinery with the oil it got from the wells it expropriated from U. S., British, Dutch companies. Last week about 6,000 tons of German machinery was in Genoa, awaiting British and French shipping permits. Meanwhile, through intermediaries (since Mexico and Great Britain broke off relations in May 1938), Mexico argued that the delivery could not possibly benefit Germany, since it was already paid for anyway by oil delivered before...
Rumors that London had been heavily bombed and was going up in flames were current all over rural Great Britain in the first weeks of World War II. Today, with less news than usual in Britain's habitually restrained newspapers, the King's subjects continue to trade heavily in rumors, and last week the following-entirely untrue-were widely believed...