Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...could endure. Reported killed in an accident during the week was Flying Officer Edgar James ("Cobber Kain "D. F. C., 22, of New Zealand. Prime Allied targets included oil depots at Hamburg and Kiel, factories in the Ruhr. A French naval formation for the first time let go explosives instead of literature near Berlin, in retaliation for the hundreds killed & wounded around Paris...
With all the audacity of a squirrel that finds a nut and then points to it instead of hiding it, diminutive Portugal last week rashly called attention to herself and her empire-fourth largest area in the world-by proclaiming a six-month festival to celebrate the Sooth anniversary of her independence and the tercentenary of her restoration following 60 years under Spain...
...this show they studiously ignored advertising clients. Robert Riggs (Dole pineapple, Goodyear tires) exhibited his circus lithographs, which have steadily won critical acclaim in the past six years. A surrealist painting was hung by famed French Poster Artist A. M. Cassandre (Dubonnet). Instead of seminudes in bathtubs for Cannon towels, Gladys Rockmore Davis sent a demure little girl writing. Peter Helck, who turns out ads for Champion spark plugs, Goodyear tires, refreshed his soul with an antiquated locomotive in a railroad yard. Leon Karp, layout man for N. W. Aver, painted his son in rougher textures than ad clients generally...
...citizens worrying about the danger to their crude rubber supply, of which over 90% now comes from the East Indies, neither of these events was particularly reassuring. Instead they emphasized the urgency of the problem in terms of National Defense. For since it still lacks real tonnage production of synthetic rubber, the U. S. might have tonight to keep the trade routes to the East open...
...close out his automobile and electric-appliance business. In the Memphis Democrat he took a quarter-page ad: "Yes, folks, it's true. I'm not going to be with you much longer! . . . For in a little while I'll be stripping sorghum and hoeing peas instead of peddling refrigerators and radios. ... I want to sell at least 25 new G. E.'s so I can leave some bean and potato money for the wife and children while I'm eating off of Uncle Bud. . . . Frankly, I've been sold...