Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jungle Story. Unpredictable as ever, the defenders chose to abandon their excellent beach defenses and pull back to the hills. Troops quickly worked up toward the dense undergrowth where the first Japanese opposition began. Then the battle steadied down to the usual drudging Southwest Pacific jungle fight, with the Aussies working diligently to erase each individual Jap. At some points the advance was slowed by electrically-controlled Jap minefields. But by this week the Aussies had reached the town of Tarakan and captured the island airfield two miles away...
...Others must be able to sell more relatively with respect to the United States, and the United States must be prepared to abandon its traditional policy of economic superiority to one of less relative importance, if we are to have financial stability. Through this relative reduction," he added, "both the United States and other nations will be able to sell more in absolute value...
...children, and ending on the nana of a second world war to the tune of a second venture in matrimony. The heroine knew how to play the game of living with an American love for hard knocks, and her zest has been caught in the motion picture's robust abandon...
...money was repaid until, at the outbreak of World War II, the Government held but $8,750,000 of its original $12,500,000 preferred stock in G.M.'s bank. As deposits doubled & redoubled, somewhat surprised General Motors executives found that their bank, which they still planned to abandon at the end of the emergency, had become the keystone of Detroit's financial structure...
...miles from the nearest Russians. What was left to the Germans for the defense of Berlin, of Leipzig and Munich was a beaten, confused, retreating mass that could turn to fight only in knots of resistance. The last hope of the Nazi command seemed to be only this : abandon the north-south defense of Germany as speedily as possible and pivot to hold the southern bastion of the Bavarian Alps for a final, suicidal defense...