Word: builded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Behind their braggadocio there had always been the grudging realization that their country could not afford true sea power; its industrial potential was so low that they could not, in emergency, build a new fleet almost overnight, as the U.S. had after Pearl Harbor. Theirs had been a strategy of poverty and picayune improvisation...
...Poles, Czechs and other people . . . have had to suffer during the years under Hitler. But it would be of little use to anyone to accept our suffering as penance for the ill Germany has caused others. . . . The utmost efforts are being made . . . but you must help. . . . Help us to build a new Germany where freedom and democracy will reign...
These men and others like them had gone into northern Canada in mid-summer 1942 to build and maintain air bases on the "Northeast Staging Route to Europe." They had manned the $1,700,000 runways, barracks and hospital at The Pas, the $9,300,000 establishment at Churchill on the west shore of Hudson Bay,* the $7,000,000 base at Southampton Island's Coral Harbor (socalled because of the tropical fossils found there). But the great air ferry route was hardly used: the route via Labrador and Iceland proved more feasible. The first...
Remembering the build-up impact of Lucky Strike's commercial, L.S./M.F.T., he had planned a campaign on similar lines...
...Munich last week burly Michael Cardinal von Faulhaber, 76, longtime anti-Nazi who ones narrowly escaped being sent to Dachau, asked General Eisenhower for permission to build a convent on the site of that most dreaded of Nazi concentration camps. His vision: to make the scene of 20th-century mass martyrdom a place of pilgrimage for people of all faiths...