Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tons) would not give the transcontinental lines as much as a 1% increase in carloadings. Yet it might be the camel's last straw. Already car-loadings on these lines are up some 20% over last year and some of them have scarcely enough surplus cars for comfort...
...immediate military importance of the Yugoslav overturn is that Germany can hardly attack Greece with ease or comfort without having Yugoslavia secure. If Germany has to conquer Yugoslavia first, she will have at best an ugly little campaign to fight, and afterwards nasty guerrilla warfare that will cost both time...
...years when he used to confuse fellow delegates to the late League of Nations with such phrases as "China is not a nation," talkative, persuasive Yosuke Matsuoka shuttled comfortably back & forth between Japan and Europe by boat. Last week there was little comfort to be had traveling anywhere in the Eastern Hemisphere, and a boat trip from Japan to Europe was hazardous and well-nigh impossible. For his much-publicized trip to Berlin, Japan's Foreign Minister chose the creaky, dirty, uncomfortable Trans-Siberian Railroad, and he let it be assumed that he would stop en route in Moscow...
...long as Nazi submarines are sinking 350,000 tons of shipping a month, there is scant comfort in setting cargo priorities and seizing a mere 169 vessels. Once these steps are all taken, the U. S. will have to settle down to the tougher task of building ships and shipyards faster than it has ever built them before. With every yard already crowded, U. S. shipbuilders are talking about their boom. Soon they will look back to March of 1941 as a period of lull...
...sweet comfort for my troubles that I seek...