Word: using
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Example: The Corporation would open up a $300,000,000 credit for Brazil. Brazil would have to use that credit for purchases in the U. S. or ask the Corporation to buy abroad for her. Then the Corporation would take over all Brazil's exportable surpluses: coffee, cotton...
North Carolina's President Frank P. Graham cautioned: "We should not let our fear of the fifth column cause us to surrender to the sixth column, who would mistakenly use the fears of the people and the confusion of the hour to cause Americans to strike down the Bill of Rights and to surrender the recent basic social advances...
...Breaking up coal in veins by use of explosives is still standard practice in U. S. mining, and despite precautions is still hazardous. Coal Age described a new method of mining by hydraulic pressure: a hole is bored in a coal seam, a rubber tube is inserted in the bore, and the tube is then powerfully expanded by forcing oil into it, fracturing the coal. Experimental installations broke about 2.500 tons of coal each before failing...
This test is to enable Time readers to prove their own knowledge of Current Affairs. In recording answers, make no marks at all opposite questions. Use one of the answer sheets printed with the test. In all, answer sheets for four persons are provided. After taking the test, you can check your replies against the correct answers printed on the last page of this test, entering the number of your right answers as your score on your answer sheet. On previous Time Tests College Student scores have been reported averaging 60; Time Reader scores have averaged...
...must look towards the future and make sure that the same mistakes are not made again. We must arm intelligently and without hysteria. We must make sure that the enemies of democracy do not use this will to arm as a means to found Fascism in this country. Above all, we must not desert Britain and her Empire because they are today our first line of defense. Britain will now be fighting at terrific odds; she may crack beneath the strain just as France has done, but the British fleet must be saved from Hitler or we will find ourselves...