Word: strengthening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have to roll directly up from Leningrad into the narrow, flat Finnish terrain between the Gulf and Lake Laatokka, Europe's largest lake. On this strategic gateway Finland has massed her only heavy fortifications, concrete pillbox forts and tank traps which Finnish soldiers last week worked furiously to strengthen...
...strengthen our "good neighbor" policy by doing our best to clear up the current oil problems in Mexico...
...sent his diplomatic subordinate, the Finnish Minister to Sweden Juho Paasikivi, a onetime Premier of Finland, now President of the Finnish Foreign Trade Association. "We are calm and feel not the slightest nervousness!" cried Finnish Premier Aimo Cajander, while letting it be known that reservists were being rushed to strengthen Finland's defenses along the Soviet frontier. It was assumed that Dictator Stalin would demand the "lease" of several small Finnish islands near Leningrad and that this would have to be yielded in exchange for trade favors, but in case Moscow demands to lease the Aland Islands, owned...
...because the cooties were biting. But it looked as if the Allies wanted to stall along with Herr Hitler's peace drive until November, when weather begins to get too severe for extensive, daily air activity. Then a whole winter on the economic front might strengthen the Allies' military position...
...from Poland on the Western Front, with headquarters at Bingen.* The No. 4 Nazi, Rudolf Hess, was reported making a tour of the entire Westwall. The chief of the Nazi labor battalions, Robert Ley, was known to be here & there behind the Wall, driving his men to complete and strengthen the fortifications behind which Germany was preparing either a permanent stand or a counteroffensive the nature of which was darkly dramatized by A. Hitler's reference in Danzig to "a weapon with which we cannot be attacked...