Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...biggest of Chennault's planes will be able to reach the South China Sea, where in the first 19 days of September his B-24s alone had sunk 74,600 tons of Jap shipping. The hope of using Chennault's air forces to support the promised approach of Admiral Nimitz to the China coast has gone glimmering...
Russia's territorial demands had increased since the spring negotiations. Instead of the tip of the Ribachi Peninsula, commanding the approach to far-northern Petsamo, the Russians had now taken Petsamo itself and enough surrounding territory to cut off Finland from the Arctic, restore the Tsarist frontier with Norway. Instead of their lease on Hangö, commanding the Gulf of Finland, Russia took a 50-year lease on the Porkkala Peninsula for a naval base. This brought the Russians within twelve miles of Helsinki. Russia also got back Viipuri, Finland's fourth biggest city. Parts of timber-rich...
...Private Joseph L. Lockard (the young man who stayed overtime to show a friend how to operate the Oahu plane detection system and who detected and reported the approach of a large flight of planes but, like everyone else, could not believe they were Jap) is now a lieutenant serving in the Signal Corps stationed in Louisiana...
Dewey wanted no nonsense, no barnstorming, no parades, flags or placards. His first two speeches, as he began his 6,700-mile jaunt to the West Coast and back, were short, crisp, and to the point-good examples of well ordered, factual courtroom talk. His tactical approach was to present one issue in each speech and ram that issue home so hard that the New Deal would be driven into long explanation...
...commodity exchanges the approach of war's end and the prospects of record crops scared traders into dumping their futures contracts. Wheat prices slumped some 4? a bushel, oats 10? and rye 14?. But paradoxically Latin American producers of foodstuffs were cheered by the nearness of German defeat. In Brazil, Colombia and Cuba, sellers rebelled at contracting ahead for delivery of coffee, cocoa and sugar at U.S. ceiling prices. They expect a rush of orders, at good prices, from Europe...