Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Between peaceful 1938 and war-cursed 1941, South America's ship movements had dropped from an estimated 150 million to 105 million tons, exports from 48 to 37 million, imports from 32 to 21 million tons. Small comfort was the silver lining: a growth of Latin-American merchant tonnage from 1938's 1,400,000 to some 2,000,000. That was good, but that was not enough. Venezuela's seizure last week of six Axis vessels was small salvage...
...Navy Department grimly conceded the loss of ten Allied merchant ships during the week. Ruled Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox: hereafter announcements of sinkings, save in rare instances, will not identify the vessels beyond type-"small, medium, large"-will contain no information that may conceivably give information or comfort to the enemy...
...Swedes wished they knew the correct answer. Remembering that between offensive and defensive moves, psychopathic Hitler usually chooses what he believes is the defensive (see p. 28), they took little comfort from reports that aged King Gustav V had followed broadcasts of tennis matches between Sweden and Croatia with "great excitement...
...West Coast valued safety more than vegetables, more than the comfort or livelihood of foreigners who might be innocent but were still foreigners. Francis Biddle's measures struck most West Coast citizens, indeed, as wishy-washy, especially in giving aliens one to three weeks of grace to move from restricted zones. From California's Attorney General Earl Warren, from 100 sheriffs and district attorneys and from Los Angeles' Mayor Fletcher Bowron came a demand that all enemy aliens be removed at least 200 miles inland. The Los Angeles County Defense Council wanted them all interned...
...hands of God, from Whom we can get comfort in our anxieties and strength to play the man and help one another in all the ordeals which are to come...