Word: base
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, however, Mr. Rockefeller declared he would waive the refund (except half the $6,705 litigation cost) and forget any further action, if the town would base his 1940 assessment on the readjusted one for 1934, and if he could be assured that henceforth he would not be discriminated against...
...Costa Rican officials considered occupying Cocos Island, which lies about 550 miles southwest of Panama and which no nation claims, to prevent its use as a belligerent submarine base...
Night. A railway station at Cernauti, Rumania, onetime outpost of German culture in the East, now a hurtling trade centre at the base of the Carpathian Mountains. Rolling hills in the background, overshadowed by the black mass of a 3,000-ft. peak; the Prut River flowing nearby. Enter Colonel Josef Beck, Foreign Minister of Poland. No longer the same man as in Act I and II, the Colonel is haggard, sleepless; the sardonic elegance that marked his appearance has vanished. With him is Marshal Smigly-Rydz, Commander in Chief of the Polish Armies, equally haggard, desperate...
...Russians we want to enter Berlin," explained Lord Fisher, "not the French or English." But even though the Russians were then on Britain's side, even though enemy airplanes then offered small hazard, Lord Fisher's plan never got to first base. Bitterly he observed: "The unparalleled Armada of 612 vessels constructed to carry out this decisive act in the decisive theatre of war was diverted and perverted to the damned Dardanelles...
...base figures of American industrial production indicate that our facilities are fully adequate for probable war needs, and indeed that "there was ample unused capacity during the period 1920-35 to support a major war," Colonel Rutherford held. The United States is self-sufficient in most of the raw materials needed for munitions, and has begun to stock up on those whose importation might be stopped...