Word: things
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Light-tank production (mostly by American Car and Foundry Co.) has zoomed to 125 a month; both divisions by last week had more than their allotted complement. But for the missing mediums they used old, twin-turreted crocks ("Mae Wests" to their crews). Production of the real thing is lagging at the Army's Rock Island (Ill.) Arsenal. Chrysler Corp. also has an order for medium tanks, has had to postpone its first delivery date from next March to next September...
...little creature down, he said. Let us not be cruel to the innocent creations of Almighty God. If it is not poison and grows no larger than a mouse and does not travel in great numbers and has no memory to speak of, let the timid little thing return to the earth...
...Lawyer Sergei Shaskan Zlinkoff: "If [gifted students] try to pursue their interests, they are called grinds and apple polishers. They have to try for low grades if they want classmates to treat them as equals. I went to the University of Arizona, and I found out that there the thing to do was not to study but to go for moonlight rides on the desert...
...There is one thing I want to ask of you all; that we give no place to weariness, to capitulation! There are those who would persuade us that the suffering of our Church is a sign that it follows a perverted way. To that we reply confidently that the Apostles have borne witness to the contrary. ... In their strength let us go forward on the way-in His footsteps-unconcerned with the censure of men, but with the peace of Christ in our hearts and with praise of God on our lips. So help...
...sale did not mean that Climax was broke. Since steelmen recognized molybdenum's .value in making tough, rugged alloys, Climax has become the biggest thing in Leadville as well as in the "moly" business, has paid almost $26 million in dividends in the last five years. The company had $8,678,521 in the bank at the beginning of 1940. But Climax refused to pay what it considered an exorbitant...