Word: except
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Forbade the export (except under license) of 1) equipment and formulas used to manufacture aviation gasoline; 2 ) plans and specifications for the construction of aircraft and aircraft engines...
...Dealers, who had counted on Wallace to do the fighting, were disappointed. Some editorial writers were pained. Henry Wallace told farmers who had always been Republicans (except for their two votes for Franklin Roosevelt) that Hitler wanted the Republican Party to win. To violently protectionist cattlemen, he praised the Hull trade treaties...
...looked last week as if two for one was understatement. The R. A. F. had previously boasted that the Ruhr industrial district was pulverized-except for a few blast furnaces which were left as beacons on the highroad to Berlin. But, by comparison with German attacks on Britain, the R. A. F. effort looked pale. One rough day last week the R. A. F. did not go out over Germany at all, yet the Luftwaffe was still in evidence over London. R. A. F. might be more scrupulous, but on the average it could scarcely be more successful than Luftwaffe...
...French State himself, muttering, "When will the old man [Pétain] stop sleeping with that charcoal dealer [Laval] from Châteldon?" Laval further improved his position by making himself Acting President of the Cabinet, relieving Octogenarian Henri Philippe Pétain of actual contact with the Government except at full Council meetings. Also out of the Cabinet went Adrien Marquet (Interior) and Jean Ybarnégaray (Youth & Family), two violent nationalists unloved by the Germans. Pierre Laval was now, for the moment at least, Vichy's one strong...
...conquering Germans have requisitioned nothing from unoccupied France because, except for its huge wine industry, no important staples come from the unoccupied area. Mother Filloux still serves her internationally relished goose-liver pâté and fat-breasted pullets on her terrace at Lyon. Broiled trout are still to be had at the famed little Hôtel du Château at Randan, and crawfish at Robinson's, outside Vichy. The good & great cooks of France will see that she goes hungry palatably. But there are no more tarts in Vichy. Apple tarts have disappeared from...