Word: thirdly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...historical precedents should have loomed large if not largest in the campaign was at least half-forgotten. At Amarillo, Tex. last week and at Sacramento, Calif. Candidate Willkie told Democrats they had to choose between the tradition of voting for their party and the tradition against a third term. But the low ebb of public attention to the third-term issue was exemplified by hearings held in Washington on Senator Burke's proposed Constitutional amendment for a single, six-year Presidential term: so meagre was the audience that the hearings were transferred from the marble Senate Caucus room...
...Florida, where sunshine, bathing beauties, vistas of white sand and palm trees, pleasure domes and gambling dens continued to lure the wealthy, the retired and the relaxed. Second in the rate of population growth was New Mexico, where discouraged Okies, who could get no farther, had bogged down. Third fastest-growing State: California, another sun-worshipers' Mecca. Fastest-growing region: the South...
Asked what steps would be necessary if they were required to increase their production one-third in the next six months, manufacturers said they would have to hire more men (71.1%), get a longer work week (38.3%), curb the labor unions (29.5%), train skilled labor (30.6%), increase the production of supplies (26%), get new financing (19.9%). If rearmament or war started a sharp rise in prices, some (34.7%) executives thought the Government should fix prices, others (24.9%) favored a voluntary move on the part of trade associations to hold prices down, others (26.7%) were willing to let prices find their...
...reasons for Italian confidence was apparent superiority in the air. With a pronounced margin in numbers, the Italians also had at least parity in plane quality, since the British use mostly planes like Gloster Gladiators in Egypt, where dust and sand jam modern retractable landing gear. A third possible reason for Italian optimism was numerical superiority-perhaps four-to-one-in troops. Another was the threat of a diversion against the British rear, from Italian East Africa...
...spoils she covets: Gibraltar, French Morocco, Oran. Day after day, while Herr von Ribbentrop was gone, he frittered away his time, going to Brussels for a sight-seeing trip through German-occupied territory, twiddling his thumbs in Berlin. While German newspapers pointedly referred to Spain as the third member of the Axis and third power in Hitler's Europe, Don Ramón waited impatiently to hear what had passed between Joachim von Ribbentrop and his Italian friends...