Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...owned stockpile was now some 340,000 tons, and Jones thought that was pretty good. It would have been even better, but the British-Dutch rubber cartel had turned the spigot on only a little way at first. The cartel did not want a "large stockpile that might . . . destroy the market...
...rose Majority Leader Barkley in the midst of the 40-hour-week hullabaloo in Congress. He told his colleagues their hysteria was needless. The critical mail pouring into Washington had been inspired by old enemies of the New Deal. The motive: to destroy New Deal labor laws. The "grass roots" uprising in the South was an organized campaign. Congressmen bellowing about the 40-hour week had better go home, talk to the voters...
Were they groggy? U.S. and Australian bombers continued to destroy their shipping, planes and troops in the islands off northern Australia. Toward the mainland, the Japanese last week made no moves except sporadic, ineffectual air raids on the north coast...
...other hand I was unsuccessful in obtaining the fortification of Guam; in preventing the division of the navy into two oceans. I was unable to persuade the navy and the administration that airplanes could destroy battleships...
...Voice of Fighting Russia is almost a kid's book of brave deeds along the front and behind both lines-farmers weeping with outraged peasant piety as they destroy their crops; the obscure, invaluable labors of guerrilla warriors and of the ten million who form the labor battalions of the People's Army; the structure and façade of an entire people at war. Tank, infantry, sea and air engagements, if as consistently heroic as here reported, would have backed the Nazis off the Atlantic coast long ago. Gummy on every page with the fancy frosting...