Word: amassing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. August Heckscher, 92, shrewd, crusty, tufty-bearded, Hamburg-born industrialist and financier who made fortunes in coal and zinc, survived to amass even greater wealth as one of the most active and hardheaded manipulators of New York City real estate, and to distribute an estimated $30,000,000 in charities; in Mountain Lake...
After the war this hearty and charming southerner took a share of his family's publishing fortune (L'Indépendant of Perpignan) and proceeded to found an importing business in Indo-China which soon hit the jack pot, permitting him to amass one of the world's most important private collections of Napoleonana. As a press officer in the Air Ministry in World War II. "Chariot" Brousse acquired the reputation of being the most prodigious wangler in Paris and gained the gratitude of all U. S. newsmen for his many feats of bypassing departmental red tape...
...last week, Minister Marquet also had advice for America. "Tell America her time is coming unless she wakes up," he advised foreign pressmen. "In 1932 when I was there, a young man with average intelligence, average brawn and average will to work could have hoped and did hope to amass enough to live comfortably. When I returned in 1939 I was astonished to find American youth no longer wished to work . . . women filling the jobs of men in industry and commerce, wearing too much make-up and refusing to bear children. I warn you . . . it is time for that nation...
Although Dartmouth rules a popular favorite for the meet, the Mikkolamen should win in a photo finish. It is doubtful, nevertheless, if the Crimson will amass more than 70 points. The Indians are favored due to the Crimson's poor showing in the practice triangular meet with Holy Cross and Northeastern last Saturday. It must be remembered that the Holy Cross squad found the meet as important as the Yale meet is to the Crimson, while the Mikkolamen regarded the meet as a practice one. Harvard boasts a victory over Dartmouth in the quadrangular meet, where they topped the Indians...
Just before war broke, Military Expert Liddell Hart published The Defence of Britain, postulating his theorem that in modern warfare, "defense is the best attack." A 3-to-1 superiority in mechanized weapon power is necessary for victory on the attack, and such superiority would be almost impossible to amass in a war between great powers. Many an ardent soldier criticized this thesis. "It was," as its author says, "an offense to their offensive spirit...