Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Question: "Instead of waiting for the airplane builders to expand their facilities, why ries?" don't you Knudsen: use "We the would gain automobile facto nothing but floor space. [Automobiles have] wholly different engines, of different size, of different tooling. The buildings alone would...
...bright financier named Paul Reynaud. Soon Reynaud, who till then had been a good family man, separated from his wife. Under the administration of Georges Bonnet (then Minister of Justice) the divorce laws were altered and the financier expected to be free within one year instead of three...
...same, with improvements based on bitter experience, as the one which Sir Alan constructed between Lille and the Somme last winter while the B. E. F. Second Corps, which he commanded, was marking time. Observers believe that, had the French commanders prepared as wisely and industriously as Sir Alan, instead of relying on the thin pillbox line of their Maginot extension, the German breakthrough could not have been so swift and disastrous. In France the Brooke system never had a chance to prove itself, for after being ordered into, then out of Belgium, the Second Corps was swung south...
...usual, the pattern of what had been expected from the Germans failed to occur. Instead of trying to knock out the Royal Air Force before attempting anything else, Germany had another plan: blow out the lifelines. Raiding squadrons of bombers, sometimes 80 and 100 strong, escorted by fighters, had already struck time & again at Devonport, Plymouth, Portsmouth, Brighton, Newhaven, Dover, especially hard at the bustling docks of the Thames Estuary. Shipping in the English Channel-embattled Britain's turbulent moat only 22 miles wide at its narrowest (Dover-Calais)-had been incessantly attacked by German aircraft and motor torpedo...
...Instead of this battle, the Democratic Convention was being broadcast from the Chicago Stadium. At 10 o'clock, at 10:15, at 10:30, Senator Wagner was still reading the Democratic platform. Irate fans bombarded the National Broadcasting Co. with phone calls, demanded that it take the Convention off the air, give them the fight they wanted to hear. At 10:34, when Senator Wagner finally stopped that talking, the an fight was NBC over -a spokesman technical knock announced out for Armstrong in the sixth round...