Word: 151and
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...effort to smash Russia's last strong hold on the Crimea, to abolish the southern anchor of the long Russian front, to win command of the Black Sea, to open one gate to the oil-rich Caucasus. He also threw in planes, so many that the Russians soon—and ominously—admitted that the few Russian aircraft able to operate within Sevastopol's narrowed defense area were greatly outnumbered...
...should be ten teeth for one and ten eyes for one." As a matter of arithmetic, that seemed reasonable enough, since the Germans do their own reprisal work on the scale of a hundred eyes for one tooth. The question remained whether Allied reprisals would be morally justified—and whether they would do any good...
...best automobile: the car that ran 150 m.p.h. on the Indianapolis speedway, the one that hauled coal, or the one that took the family to the beach on Sunday? As the U.S. design and production machine is geared up, each U.S. plane should be the best in its class—and within only a few months...
...first 13 weeks of this year, R.K.O.'s consolidated net earnings were only $439,000 v. $643,000 last year. For a while there was only one picture in production—and a huge operation like R.K.O. needs much more than that to stay in the black. In fact, R.K.O. is scraping the bottom of the barrel again, and Mr. Odium, who got it out of receivership in 1939 was out looking for a $3,000,000 working-capital loan (which he will probably get from New York City's Manufacturers Trust Co.—provided he guarantees...
...Howland Barnes is 69 now, and long since retired from the grain business in which he was once the biggest U.S. exporter. But last week he came back > into the news again with a plan for improving labor relations by giving first call on jobs to the neediest workmen—and paying them the union scale of $51 for a 60-hour shipyard week—even if they had never before earned half that much. To prove his theory, he had made a place in his shipyards for 169 men who were almost down & out, and he was well pleased with...