Word: due
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scene was the annual conference of the Conservative Party, in London. Over the meeting loomed the prospect of a general election, Britain's first in ten years, due to follow V-E day. The fact that Winston Churchill had chosen to talk to the Tories as a Tory looked like electioneering, and his speech was definitely that...
...assumed full administrative control, and FSA had become only a lien holder. Then, in January 1945, Manager Tayloe walked proudly into the FSA office in Dallas with a check for $933,000. The entire federal mortgage had been paid off in three years, 47 years before it was due; the tenants were happy and reasonably prosperous, and the corporation had enough cash in the till to donate $20,000 to Texas agricultural experimenters...
...started driving a truck for Gaburo's Laundry. He was big and dark and handsome, except for his jug ears, and he was everybody's friend. He was also restless. At 18 he joined the Army, won a sweater in a Golden Gloves boxing tournament, in due time he was shipped off to the Philippines...
...business of giving credit where credit is due should work both ways. Canadians wanted the world to know that some 20% of all the flyers in Britain's Royal Air Force are Canadians, that the battle-experienced British Eighth Army in Italy includes the Canadian I Corps-which is one good reason why there is such a small proportion of Canadian troops on the Rhine...
...remarkable that the personnel produces as good quality products as they do, with the equipment and methods of manufacture in vogue. . . . Due to rising costs, with no relief from OPA . . . about 60% of the cut tack sales were made at a loss...