Word: due
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Due Process. Ideas for new weapons are first screened by the Ordnance Technical Committee, headed by Major General Gladeon M. Barnes, engineering graduate of the University of Michigan...
...pledge was due, and some 70,000,000 underfed Western Europeans knew it. But there were no such stocks, nor other regions to which Europe could turn for food. Japs still held most of Asia's food exporting areas. Drought held South America, South Africa, Australia (TIME, March 26). The U.S. and Canada, after alltime peaks of food production last year, expected a slight drop this year...
...quality of the performance, major credit was due to two U.S. generals who went in with their men: Major General William M. ("Bud") Miley, commander of the 17th Airborne, taking his outfit into combat for the first time, and Major General Matthew Bunker Ridgway, veteran airborne fighter and commander of the Airborne Army's XVIII Corps. They had led their troops across the enemy barrier on bridges of silk...
Outside the province, Ontario's upsy-daisy was important because the election it necessitates-probably to be held in May or early June-will be a straw-in-the-wind prelude to the Dominion-wide election due this summer. Certainly all parties will shoot the works in Ontario, aware that provincial victory will boost national chances...
...This problem is the natural result of existing conditions, since most of the papers follow a conservative line politically and economically, due to the large capitalistic interests of the majority of paper owners. Naturally the economic beliefs of such men run parallel to those of other heavy investors and their papers reflect the conservative, moneyed interests of their owners...