Word: add
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the U.S. Ambassador to France, Admiral Leahy, called on Marshal Pétain and reminded him of his frequent oral assurance that Vichy would never add to her commitments to Germany under the Armistice. The Marshal had nothing to say about that, but he repeated his belief, often privately expressed, that Germany would...
...least a year will pass before we can have an Army and an air force adequate to meet the air and ground forces which could be brought against us. . . . We have ... a naval instrument prepared and ready. ... So said Secretary of War Stimson last week. Army and Navy officers add some important qualifications to this estimate, but in general they agree with Mr. Stimson...
...Mexico City to get in the movies, took to singing together in nightclubs in gold-braided black charro (cowboy) costumes. They have since broadcast for NBC, played at Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall, are now in Argentina. To delicate touching of the guitar and impeccable rhythm they add three fine voices in almost tangent harmony. When they are sweet they are very, very sweet, as in the sad, melodic Hace Un Ano (A Year Ago), Las Mananitas (Mornings), Adids Mariquita Linda (Goodby, Beautiful Mariquita). Their liveliest number is a ranch song, El Toro, full of shouting, whistling, guitar...
...without large point contributions from Doug, Pirnie, Don Donahue, Dick Pfister, and Roger Schafer the Cambridge goose is cooked. These are experienced tracksters and if they can present Harvard with a heavy set of tallies such less steady men as Bob Houghton, Mike Ford, and Rolla Campbell may add enough markers to give the Crimson a respectable place in the competition...
...diversion of lumber shipments now made through the canal, it is estimated, would add 6,000 carloads a month to the rails' burden. New York City alone "imports" some 16,000,000 cases a year of fruits and vegetables from the West Coast which now will be dumped on to the railroads-or on to overworked transcontinental trucks. Also added to west-to-east rail traffic will be imported goods from the Pacific carried by ships which formerly continued on through the canal to East Coast ports. Since ships waste 30-35 days going to the East Coast...