Word: posting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...narrow, air-vulnerable ports left to them by the Germans above and below Trondheim. Its main effort was to get ashore and stake first military claim to the northwest coast of mid-Norway. Before the week ended the issue became whether German-held Trondheim was to be a beleaguered post in an Allied-held sector, or the key post of a German-held mid-Norway which the Allies had rashly invaded...
Since British business will need large reserves to weather the storms of war and post-war economics, Sir John announced a measure antipodal to the U. S. undistributed profits tax. The Chancellor said that for the duration of the war British firms will be restrained from paying dividends of more than 4% (or the maximum figure they have paid during the past three years). This "will tend to reduce the spending power in the hands of share holders but it will tend to increase the reserves of companies from undistributed profits." Taking advantage of the period of grace before...
Columbia Broadcasting System's four-man post has heard some 30,000,000 words, now puts a selection of them on a teletype circuit to publishers every day. Princeton University's Listening Centre transcribes the programs it picks up, analyzes them for propaganda content and technique...
...post card addressed to Tihany at 85 Prescott Street, Cambridge arrived yesterday almost half a year after it was mailed in Chicago by a friend during the last Christmas rush...
Payson S. Wild, assistant professor of Government, believes that Emerson is an excellent choice for the post, for "he is skilled in the problems of colonial and backward nations. His book, 'Malasia,' is an authoritative study of the British and Dutch possessions in South East Asia. Emerson is genuinely interested in the post...