Word: establish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Uses. Last year the State Department dispatched young James Penfield and George West Jr. on the Coast Guard cutter Comanche to establish the first U.S. consulate in Greenland. Through fog to Arsuk Fjord, to Ivigtut and beyond...
Beneath the surface jitterbugging of the American way of life, destiny seems to be working to establish a relaxed civilization...
...from discontinuing our work, we still have a French personnel, working under French authorities in the Aisne, the same region where for 25 years we have continuously given aid to the civilian population. Also, we recently have helped to establish a center to care for little lost children, in the Ardennes. Both these places are in the north, in the occupied zone...
Then the Vatican radio swung into action, declaring that Nazis were set to establish a new church in Germany entirely independent of Rome and recalling Nazi Mystagogue Alfred Rosenberg's denunciation of Roman Catholicism as a "Mediterranean Jewish myth." Later the Vatican broadcast that all Germans expressing a desire to become priests are liable to internment, that convents and monasteries have been closed all over Germany, that priests have trouble in ministering to soldiers and are liable to expulsion from their parishes at the slightest pretext...
...clear up these troubles, the film chiefs are wrangling with the Board of Trade over a plan to insure British film production under war conditions. Through a film commission, the Board is arranging to guarantee supplies of materials, man power and studios, perhaps even establish a film bank to lend money for British productions. Gloomed Producer Balcon: "As a producer, I state most emphatically that unless a special Government department with strong powers is set up immediately to deal with these problems, British production is sunk...