Word: approach
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...horizon a low-lying cloud appears, and grows. It is a column of dust, signaling a column of vehicles. They approach. There are tanks, command cars, supply vehicles. They clank to a stop and lie scattered. Men crawl out, stretch, make repairs, talk, crawl back...
...assembly-line techniques (see cut) hut it has made only single-engine planes (Stinson trainers, Vanguard pursuits, Vengeance dive-bombers, etc.). For it, the Consolidated deal is a side door to the big-plane field, which it otherwise would have had to spend millions in plant and experimentation to approach...
...book is divided into a Prologue, which sets forth the thesis in general terms, and sections on deflation in moral content, in economic policy, and in foreign policy. One need not agree with the validity of all the author's conclusions to recognize the value of his approach. His recognition that for the Roosevelt administration to produce a workable economic system it must employ methods which are the antithesis of Jeffersonian democracy is typically realistic...
...themselves set for the battle of 1942. They could not drive south to the battlefield of 1942 while substantial Russian forces remained at their rear in the north; and so they fought in violent haste, to choke off Moscow (see p. 21) and strengthen their position at the approach of the Caucasus, around Rostov...
...little Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, who favors pacifist isolationism, not as a means of hurting Britain's war effort, but in order to keep the Nationalist movement alive. Millions of other Hindus, including many members of Gandhi's own Indian National Congress party, watching Adolf Hitler's approach to India beyond the Caucasus and Japan's approach beyond Burma, are prepared to fight against the Axis-if Indian self-government seems likely. Other millions are already fighting hard, in factories and in Britain's Middle Eastern ranks. And many millions feel little concern about World...