Word: far
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bonneville-Grand Coulee area of Oregon and Washington is far from eastern and midwestern markets; freighting costs are high. Private utilitarians pointed out that they had tried for years to overcome these handicaps. Asked how Federal amateurs could expect to do better, Paul Raver's retort was the Aluminum Co. contract. "A nice Christmas present," he called it. He now expects to convince many more processors (chiefly of metals and chemicals) that they can save enough with ultracheap power to pay for the long hauls of raw materials and finished goods...
...really not a Buchmanite. I think Moral Rearmament is a great, tremendous influence for good, and it ought to be encouraged. I'm very strong for it. But I'm not a convert." Uplifted by a pile of commendatory messages and cablegrams from as far off as Ireland, Mr. Woodring then went back to his business of rearming the U. S. Army. The Secretary...
...German hierarchy, after the heads of State and Army, is the country's mouthpiece. In title and theory, Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels holds this position. But the Goebbels' star has fallen so far since the signing of the German-Russian pact that another man is rapidly moving into his spot. The usurper's official title is Reich Organization Director, Leader of the Labor Front; but as he moves towards No. 3, he becomes, more & more, spokesman of Nazi doctrine, utterer of slogans, salesman of ideas. The unfortunate pronunciation of his name is the same...
...gift had a tangle of strings attached. The river would be opened only as far as Nanking-a still dead city 193 miles upriver from Shanghai, only one-third of the stretch held by Japan. It would be opened "at the proper time"-not immediately. Navigation would be subject to "certain restrictions necessary for the maintenance of order and military operations...
Arctic Rout. The far northern drive had already been halted last week-but not by the Russians. In the dark Arctic region south of Petsamo the Finns had a real birthday present for Joe Stalin, and they delivered it wrapped in a blizzard. While the Finns were digging in near Ivalo, on their Lapland "Mannerheim Line," preparing to meet the Russian mechanized forces that were rolling southward, a thick, swirling snowstorm enveloped the Russian Army. Tanks and lorries had to be dug out of snowdrifts. Gasoline supply trucks were stalled on the road from the north. The Russians...