Word: directives
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...direct debt and more billions indirect...
...proposed corporation would be a two-billion-dollar agency, set up by direct Congressional appropriation, would include the proposed inter-American bank, to which there are already eight signatories...
...land, sea and air the Italian forces are geared rather for hit-&-run tactics than for direct attack. Their aircraft, many of them of wooden construction, hold records for speed and altitude. Their cruisers and destroyers are supposed to go in heavily for smoke screens and seldom venture beyond the range of supporting torpedo planes from land bases. Lightly armored, many of the cruisers sacrifice radius of action for speed as high as 40 knots for the light types. These are for fighting in the Mediterranean, along with swarms of 50-knot motor torpedo boats and small submarines. Other cruisers...
...George VI, target for the first time last fortnight of direct Nazi press attacks, congratulated his troops and their French allies upon their valiant retreat from Dunkirk, visited an arms factory to observe munition-making gains, fired a target full of creditable holes with a Bren...
...most devoted, most profoundly endowed religious artists whom this century has produced. As such he was, for his generation, one of the focuses of human consciousness. Of what happens to a bearer of such consciousness in time of actual war, this volume of letters is a direct record...