Word: ordering
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...little used in the army of '40, serve as the only life-size trainers at the Department's disposal. Once he leaves Soldiers Field, a graduate of Mil Sci may never see one of their kind again except on courthouse lawns. The newer, more efficient material is still "on order...
Football, singles, soccer, and track, in that order, were next in popularity. This represents a decline for soccer, which took fourth place last year, and a corresponding gain for football, which previously trailed the booters...
...first step in continuing his fight for the principles, he enunciated before the election, Willkie proposed "five steps" for the government to undertake immediately "in order to counteract the threat of inflation and to correct some of our economic errors...
...last January, by September had sunk to $14,030,000. Result: in the first nine months of 1940 she had an unfavorable trade balance. This has forced her to ship $28,400,000 of her $403,000,000 gold reserve to the U. S. since September, in order to maintain her cash balances. Argentina's politicos have their own idea of what kind of Good Neighbor the U. S. ought...
...years on the stage, Funnyman Joe Cook has thought up some 1,000 implausible inventions of the Rube Goldberg order, never sold one until last week. Then he sold one for $1,000. It was a doughnut-dunking machine (a pulley-and-string contraption) featured in his present Broadway show, It Happens on Ice. Purchaser was Doughnut Corporation of America. The sale was authentic, the money real. For Doughnut Corp., $1,000 for publicity was cheap...