Word: access
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fifth were to inscribe Singapore on its roll of battle honors, the entire strategy of the United Nations would require revision. Control of Singapore would give the Japanese easy access to the Indian Ocean. Both Britain's Indian Empire and her Middle Eastern Front (supplied through the Indian Ocean and Red Sea) would be menaced...
...Declaration of Intentions would expand, into terms as concrete as possible, Article IV of the Roosevelt-Churchill Atlantic Charter: "They [the U.S. and Britain] will endeavor, with due respect for their existing obligations, to further enjoyment by all States, great or small, victor or vanquished, of access, on equal terms, to the trade and to the raw materials of the world which are needed for their economic prosperity...
Scotland Yard optimistically reported a 1% decrease in general crime over last year. But, as in the U.S. mass evasion of the unpopular Volstead Act, official figures were unreliable. Police have access only to cases where a complaint has been registered, a culprit booked. The chief evidence of character-loosening was conversation: Topic No. 1 (the war) had been pushed into the background by Topic No. 2 (how to beat the rationing restrictions...
...Access to the building's one small reading room may be gained only with written permission from one of the cooperating libraries...
...field workers P.B.H. has obtained Miss Bertha Goldthwaite, head of the metropolitan Boston Council of Social Agencies, who will conduct the community survey. Calvin Yuill of the Metropolitan District Housing Commission, having access to the offices of local housing agencies and to plan of recent low-cost housing development, will tutor men who are concentrating" in that field...