Word: furthering
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Safe in London, Dutch Foreign Minister van Kleffens announced that one in four of his country's 400,000 soldiers was killed, the Royal Guard 80% wiped out. Military men had difficulty believing these high figures, concluded they must have included deaths anticipated if the fighting had gone on...
Further cultural activities of Cossel include obtaining German decorations for War Minister Enrico Caspar Dutra and Army Chief of Staff General Pedro Aurelio de Goes Monteiro. Visiting Berlin last year, General Goes Monteiro toasted "the beautiful principles" of Naziism.
As a third of China's undergraduates rallied in the hills of North China and organized a guerrilla army, as China fought for its life, the Chinese Government calmly laid plans for China's future. Of coolie cannon fodder it had a plenty, but in all China there...
What helped the price war along was the action of Nylonmaker E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. in canceling minimum wholesale prices on the hose. Warned by recent U. S. Supreme Court rulings against Ethyl Gasoline Corp. and against twelve oil companies for fixing prices, Du Pont went further...
By that time, however, the British Government was beginning to take a hand in British industry with a view to its social and military uses. Sir William was asked to locate his mill at Ebbw Vale in South Wales, a derelict steel'district where new jobs were acutely needed...