Word: droppings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Alps. Napoleon once had hacked a way across that rampart of nature, via Tarvis and Klagenfurt, toward Vienna. But it was formidable. Rather than a direct road to Germany, Italy might be a flank for other bridgeheads. > Italy leads to southern France. Because the Alpine passes narrow and drop steeply on the Italian side of the border, it is a military axiom that France is not readily assaulted from Italy. But from ports on the peninsula's west coast and from newly won Sardinia and Corsica (see p. 78), the Allies might strive for a bridgehead at theRhone...
...find time for flying, Berkshire has had to drop Virgil, fine arts and ancient history. But it still requires U.S. history, English, mathematics, chemistry, physics, foreign languages. And it offers a thorough ground course in aeronautical science...
...small manufacturer, caught be tween OPA and skyrocketing costs, can legally do one of two things, provided his gross margin fits OPA definitions. He can : 1) drop his low-priced lines and concentrate on the higher ones; or 2) if he has no higher ones, he can go out of business on his old lines, open up as a new company the next day. So can any shoestring retail er. The department or specialty store with many price lines is also unaffected : it can just drop the unprofitable low ones...
...drop, on receipt of good news, illustrated anew the dogged pessimism (or lack of imagination) with which U.S. investors view the approach of peace. But the quick comeback might mean that U.S. investors are coming around to the British attitude, which seems to be a more realistic appraisal of the fruits of victory. The London market last week, as it has been since Dunkirk, was on the upgrade. While British capital looks eagerly ahead to the war's end, U.S. investors still fear a vast collapse of production...
...popularized account of the prepaid group medical care Shipbuilder Henry Kaiser and Dr. Sidney Garfield established for Kaiser workers. Throughout the book, De Kruif is an unabashed St. Paul, exhorting readers to faith, hope & charity for the new group medical revelation. Writes De Kruif: "Henry Kaiser stirred me to drop all else. . . to tell America this story...