Word: falling
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Since the war in Europe broke out in the fall of 1939 the British-Argentine economic relationship has been strained. The British buy a considerable amount of their beef from the Argentine packing houses which bear the familiar names of Swift, Armour, and Wilson. The Argentine has bought in the past finished heavy goods from the British with their English pounds. Since the war, however, these pounds have been blocked in London by the British control of foreign exchange; they are not now transferable into American dollars as they were in the past. This situation has put the Argentines...
...work in his forte and consequently he is at a disadvantage under the new scoring system. This gives a contestant two points for a take-down, and four points for near-fall. These points count in the referee's decision in case there...
Referring to the late Lord Lothian's speech of two days ago in which he said that America must decide whether it is to her interest to give whatever assistance may be necessary in order to make certain that Britain shall not fall, the three professors said "The British campaign to bring America into the war has opened very inauspiciously...
...protend that aid by measures short of war will be enough for Great Britain in her present need. He states frankly that America must decide whether it is to her interest to give Britain "whatever assistance may be necessary in order to make certain that Britain shall not fall...
...France and would lament a similar defeat of Britain. But they are unready to believe that they are dependent upon any foreign power for their own national defense, and they can not easily be frightened into participation in a foreign war. When six months ago France fell and the fall of Britain seemed no less imminent than it does now, the American people refused to be governed by such fears. Now that we are in a better position to defend ourselves by our own efforts, we are even less likely to be stampeded into a different decision by the same...