Word: depending
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Caucasus is no barrier to oil. The important oil fields are north (Maikop and Grozny) and east (Baku) of the mountains, can be reached over good terrain by good communications lines. How soon Adolf Hitler reaches oil fields, and how soon he gets oil out of them, depend on the Russians and the British, who well know the importance of Middle Eastern oil to Germany's existence...
...Financial systems are in continual flux, and don't survive anyhow, war or no war. Economic systems all depend on the balance of power between the holders of private property with their parasites and the really productive proletariat. Mr. Churchill and Mr. Anthony Eden are for private property and oligarchy. Stalin is for public property and democracy. So am I. Therefore, I cannot give you an unbiased opinion. All I can tell you is that when the war is over there will be wigs on the green...
Professor Harris did not feel, however, that such an increase in debt would necessarily be dangerous. "The effects will depend in no small part on our ability to maintain a high level of income and employment in the postwar period," he observed. "A debt charge of three to five billion dollars a year would be serious with a national income of 60 billions, but with a national income of 120 billions, which is clearly obtainable in 1960, it would not be serious...
...Blandy was quietly preparing to supply them. The equipment available ranges from 5-in. guns down through 1.1-in. pom-poms and 20-mm. Oerlikons. Fitting out ships a few at a time, the Navy expects to have over 1,000 armed within four or five months. Armament will depend on the size of the ship: the largest will mount 5-in. guns fore & aft, two 20-mm. guns amidships, 1.1s topside wherever possible; the smallest will mount a 3-incher and pompoms. All will carry depth charges...
...train them before the present emergency. But if the full benefits of this idea are to be realized, they must apply to all students who might benefit from it. As it stands now, the acceleration program makes no adequate provisions for an important undergraduate group--needy students who must depend on financial aid from the University...