Word: scratch
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Adolf Hitler's blueprints for the Polish push were complete and Falkenhorst was given the job of raising and organizing, from scratch, an entire new division (32nd Infantry) with headquarters in the hick town of Köslin on the Pomeranian plain. Cheerfully he moved his wife and two daughters to their first real home after years of nomadic army life: an old castle just off the Köslin market place. He added municipal cares to his army work, became a military potentate. As sleepy Köslin came to life with martial activity, recruits and war materials...
...possible that Victor is starting this line to demolish competition in the field, and realizing that it will probably injure its own Red Seal irreparably as well, doesn't particularly care, because it intends to switch in a few years to the film process anyway, which completely eliminates needle-scratch and gives much better reproduction...
...second inning spelled defeat for the Varsity nine yesterday afternoon as the Alumni capitalized on two errors and three scratch hits to push across three runs and then went on to win an uninspired practice game...
...Intrepid Spirit." For the News plant and equipment, its Associated Press franchise and other assets, Grocer McDonald paid $150,000, assumed the burden of its $325,000 bonded debt. Last week George Fort Milton started again from scratch. He had 675 backers, most of them in Chattanooga, a bare $25,000 capital...
Like Ecusta, other U. S. tissue manufacturers, such as Peter J. Schweitzer Inc. and Smith Paper, Inc., hope to break France's cigaret-paper monopoly. Ecusta jumped from scratch to No. 1 position in the U. S. because Mr. Straus was able to pour around $4,000,000 into it. Part of the capital came from his own well-lined purse, part from his two French companies (Société Nouvelle des Papeteries de Champagne and Papeteries R. Bollore...