Word: armoured
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since the war in Europe broke out in the fall of 1939 the British-Argentine economic relationship has been strained. The British buy a considerable amount of their beef from the Argentine packing houses which bear the familiar names of Swift, Armour, and Wilson. The Argentine has bought in the past finished heavy goods from the British with their English pounds. Since the war, however, these pounds have been blocked in London by the British control of foreign exchange; they are not now transferable into American dollars as they were in the past. This situation has put the Argentines...
...windbag, the little Roman promptly named his challengers: Old-timers Tom my Armour, Harry Cooper, Billie Burke, Craig Wood, Jimmy Thomson, Al Watrous, Lawson Little and Newcomers Jim my Demaret, Ben Hogan, Ed Oliver...
...Chicago's Armour Institute of Technology started a summer course for key industrialists on new developments in defense methods, imported sixteen of the nation's best engineers and scientists as instructors...
...echo these sentiments, in Buenos Aires Argentine Foreign Minister Jose Maria Cantilo, after conferring with U. S. Ambassador Norman Armour, proposed that the Americas make a new declaration of solidarity, stronger than any heretofore. Neutrality, said Minister Cantilo, is a "fiction," a "dead conception." The Americas should adopt an attitude of "nonbelligerency," like Italy's: wholly sympathetic with one belligerent...
...Munitions Ministry's office of Trench Warfare Supplies. There it might have remained until the End of Wars had not his friend, the late Arthur Asquith, discovered it and showed it to Winston Churchill. Impressed, War Lord Churchill offered Walker the post of Expert in Light Armour to the Forces. Dr. Walker declined. "As I remembered that it had taken two years of agitation to induce the military authorities to accept the steel helmet, I . . . returned to my Field Ambulance." Back to bureaucratic limbo went the breastplate...