Word: certain
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...seriousness of the latest crisis was not that it made further war certain-this might be but another false alarm-but that it threatened the safety of nearly every nonbelligerent nation in Europe...
...reverse, if Norway and Sweden are drawn into war with Russia, thereby cutting off Germany's much-needed supplies, Germany might feel forced to make a new attack in the west -especially if Great Britain and France were allied with the Scandinavian countries. It was by no means certain that any of the neutrals would be sucked into the war. But last week's crisis showed that it was possible for World War II to spread over more of Europe than World War I ever reached...
...down, was succeeded by veteran Washington Lawyer Roger Joseph Whiteford. Mr. Whiteford, who makes annual lectures on the trial of Christ, was providentially reading a tome on the mathematics of the pyramid about the time Associated called. He was hired at $10,000 a month, but it was not certain whether he would get more than one month's pay. Unless RFC granted a $26,500,000 loan to Associated's sub-subsidiary NY PA NJ Utilities Co. (Nypan), unless SEC allowed Associated's No. 1 subsidiary (Associated Gas & Electric Corp.) to pass...
...customers, Commercial Solvents Corp., doubled its barge fleet. Scared I. C. chewed its cud, parleyed with Solvents Corp. for two years. In October it went to the I. C. C. with a petition for trainload rates on molasses. Month ago, I. C. C. brought forth its decision, that ". . . certain other forms of transportation which compete with the railroads can law fully, and do, give the shipper of large quantities a decided advantage over the shipper of lesser quantities equivalent to a railroad carload. This is true of pipeline transportation by its very nature, and it is also true of water...
...said they paid no attention whatever to the stockmarket, 23% noticed big rises and falls, 15.1% followed "general quotations fairly regularly," 11.6% followed "certain stocks...