Word: yielded
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Field Marshal, hoping to induce farmers to produce more and consume less, upped the price of butter 8? a pound, of milk 1? a quart and promised a bonus of $40 for every idle German acre brought under cultivation. Goring insisted that next year's root crop yield must be 10% to 15% over last year's, which was the highest ever. "Do not betray the faith we have in you, German farmer, to provide food for us," appealed the Field Marshal. "I give you a slogan for the production battle of 1940: Now more than ever! Ours...
...York City's Banks went further on relief (interest-wise), put another $18,000,000 into low-yield government bonds, could see no other more profitable investments to make...
...Farley is as practical a politician as ever whispered. He is also a Roman Catholic. Dopesters guessed that Jim would gladly yield the Presidency to 68-year-old Cordell Hull, but would dearly love to be Vice President. And Jim's friends think the No. 2 job is not beyond a Catholic's reach. But Jim Farley knows that no man ever got the Vice-Presidency by running for it. So Jim's first campaign speech sounded as if he was shooting for the moon and hoping to hit at least the broad side of the barn...
...other argument concerned only the U. S. and Great Britain. Last month the U. S. Department of State sent Great Britain a "vigorous protest" against interference with mail carried from the U. S. on American or neutral ships. Last week Great Britain politely refused to yield. As long as the U. S. does not object to classifying money, securities or jewels as contraband, the British intimated that they would continue to examine mails bound for Germany to see if they contained anything valuable. The British did not mention that somehow the mail was censored while officers were looking through...
...military reasons Rumania anticipates attack from across the Dnestr near Cernauti (see map) rather than from Odessa into Bessarabia. (In Bessarabia there are too many swamplands to cross.) There are now 18 Rumanian divisions massed around Cernauti as against four in Bessarabia, which Rumania might even yield under stress, taking her stand along the River Prut. But meantime Rumania is frantically strengthening her positions from the Black Sea, along the entire length of the Russian border, and back along the entire length of the Hungarian border-honor among Balkan nations cannot be trusted...