Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although tabulation of the returns will not be completed until the end of this week, results thus far express general dissatisfaction with the present scheme...
Last week the wily Finns thought up a new scheme to get much-needed war materials. Behind the Russian front and over Leningrad their aviators scattered leaflets offering deserting Russian soldiers specific prices for their arms: 100 rubles for a pistol, 150 rubles for a rifle, 1,000 to 1,500 for a machine gun, 10,000 for a tank. The Russians were even told how to surrender...
...hair that used to be the lifeblood of Lanchow's trade, now airplane engines, bombs, ammunition, gasoline, military trucks are the chief commodities. The city is also the concentration point for China's slowly building Air Force. So important a military secret has Lanchow become in the scheme of war that in two years only three trusted Occidental newspapermen have been allowed to visit...