Word: basic
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...because he was born in what became the Polish Corridor). His crossing of the Brahe in the Corridor caused the destruction of three Polish divisions and a cavalry brigade east of that river, but the Allies estimated him chiefly from his textbook Look Out, Tanks! (1939), which summarized his basic tactical principle with superb triteness: "It is important to penetrate swiftly and deeply into enemy positions with a great number of tanks...
Eight men from the government service, and twelve others who have also experienced ability and interest in basic governmental problems, have been chosen from 330 candidates as recipients for study and research at the Graduate School of Business Administration, during the academic year beginning next September, Dean John H. Williams announced today...
Another side of air defense which America has neglected is "basic research," Bollay said. As an example of German superiority here he cited the hellocopter, a type of plane which can land vertically anywhere, proved in a test flight two years ago when one flew about inside Berlin's Sportspalast, Developments such as these, when they have been perfected, will "revolutionize aerial warfare," he declared...
Ever since 1911, when Henry Ford won the basic Selden patent suit against most of the rest of the automobile industry, he has gone his own way, had no truck with the Automobile Manufacturers' Association, held his own auto shows, stood out in a cooperative industry as an arch-individualist. Exceptions: 1) after Ford Motor Co. bought Lincoln Motor Co., an A. M. A. member, Lincolns continued to take part in A. M. A. shows; 2) Ford suggested and cooperated in the industrywide Used Car Week of 1939; 3) Ford joined in the simultaneous introduction of the Sealed-Beam...
...gross last year. But last week Hygrade directors began to move out from under the table. Gathered in their Salem, Mass, office, they voted $250,000 (or more if needed) for a new factory. Its product-to-be: fluorescent lighting, in which Hygrade owns basic patents...