Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...autumn of 1942, this last dream was dead. Göring, Krupp and other mammoths were taller and fatter, little businesses were withering away. In December the official Reich Office of Statistics announced that by September 1942, state insurance paid to firms closed by war had reached 44 million Reichsmarks-more than double the amount paid out in 1941. A recent issue of the Essener National Zeitung (Göring's paper) announced, as evidence of the success of Industrial Dictator Albert Speer's rationalization program, that in the past six months the number of firms producing special...
...marked such reports since 1940. Example: a commonly accepted story has been that Haider & Co. fell out with Hitler over the Russian campaign and urged him to withdraw while there still was time. Yet Gustav Siegfried Eins, reporting Haider's dismissal, said the immediate reason was that last autumn he opposed a proposal to withdraw from Russia and concentrate on an all-out Mediterranean offensive. One change in Nazi command was apparently for merit alone: the Luftwaffe's new fighter chief, 30-year-old Gen eral Adolf Galland, was credited with upward of 100 enemy planes...
...skip into college, earn both a high-school diploma and a year of college credits at the same time? This plan was recommended last fortnight by a joint committee of the National Education Association and the American Association of School Administrators. The committee predicted, its widespread adoption by next autumn...
...Moscow and in the village precincts, Russian civilians do not have boots. During autumn cold snaps, girls in Moscow still wore summer sandals. Scarcely any civilians have rubbers or overshoes. Millions wear homemade quilted shoes...
...work. Thus big & little farmers are selling herds: the culls for slaughter, the good cows mostly to neighbors; heifers-next year's cows-are being sold for beef at fantastic prices. Results: fewer cows were milked in October than any other time since 1933; production per cow this autumn fell 1% from last fall; farmers are squeezed in a mesh of prices, wages, labor shortages...