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Word: divisional (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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By now Achilles and Exeter were deployed and sheering in. Spee. had to train both big turrets on Exeter, and just keep the others off with 5.93. The engagement settled down to a running dogfight. Tactic of the Britons, directed from the Exeter by Commodore Henry H. Harwood, Commander of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Pocket into Pocket | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

One column reached Nurmes, cutting the railroad that runs diagonally across Finland from Tornio on the Swedish frontier to south Karelia and the isthmus. Farther north, another column took Suomussalmi and turned southward toward lisalmi, a rail junction in the centre of Finland. Still farther north, a third column bore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTHERN THEATRE: Such Nastiness | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Last week President Donald Lamont Brown of United Aircraft Corp., which owns Pratt & Whitney, could have been expected to pinch himself as he looked over the production report of his engine division. Sawing away at a backlog of something like $100,000,000 (United's total backlog: above $115...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Silver Platter | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Not the least remarkable part of this 300% increase in production is the new plant. It will double P. & W.'s floor space, and the building will cost United not a dime. To speed up deliveries on orders for $60,000,000 or more worth of warplane engines and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Silver Platter | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

The 155 pound group lacks a single outstanding man, but there the competition for the first team is probably the keenest of all. In fact, it may not be settled definitely all year. Veteran Pete Illman has a slight edge over Bill Tyng and Harry Tine, a Junior and Sophomore...

Author: By Donald Peddle, | Title: What's His Number? | 12/14/1939 | See Source »

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