Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Speaking of the war in Europe, he said: "Here the aim is an offensive against Germany. There are at least a dozen different points at which attacks can be launched. You, of course, do not expect me to give details of future plans, but you can rest assured that preparations are being made here and in Britain toward this purpose...
Three steps have been taken to increase and distribute the supply: 1) A group of furniture manufacturers of Jamestown, N.Y. (the "Little Grand Rapids") formed American Aviation Corp. Aided by aviation technicians, the furniture men aim to provide plywood planes and gliders on a mass-production basis for the Navy. 2) In New York City, a group of plastics manufacturers formed the Plastic War Production Association, will pool machinery and knowledge. 3) WPB this week issued an order providing for complete allocation of Douglas fir among high priority holders...
...string of dime-store diamonds. Together they create an illusion of Manhattan high life a year or so before Pearl Harbor. "A sucker age," Novelist Powell calls it, "an age for any propaganda, any cause, any lie, any gadget." Gold-digging Amanda and Julian have but a single aim - to keep themselves on top. They are interested in making money, but more in the power that money gives. Even sex, when it is not a means to an end, is hardly more than a canapé. Good works - Bundles for Brit ain, aid to Finland, homes for children refugees - take...
...such organization at Harvard, and for this it should be commended. That their program has been unsuccessful shows either that the approach has been wrong, or that integration, once thought of as a cure-all for the entering classes caught in the wave of the accelerated program, is an aim which means nothing to Freshmen...
...dropped to 75?. Old Man Towne hung on: "Hit's wuth a dollar and I aim to git a dollar." He mortgaged his crop, his next year's crop, his 20,000 acres of lien-free land. Next year the Delta went broke. Towne's banker wired that he would have to sell. Towne wired back "NO." "I ain't aiming to sell hit fer less'n hit's wuth," he said. "But," said the banker, "all it's worth is what the market says it is." "The market is them New York...