Word: due
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bomber Command, 41-year-old Brigadier General Haywood Shephard ("Possum") Hansell Jr., had to sweat out the mission on the ground. He was not alone; ground crews had all preparations made for the homecoming and were out strolling uneasily around the runways hours before the big silvery planes were due back. But the returning airmen brought less blood-and-thunder narrative than an hour's mission in Europe might produce...
...situation has caused renewed interest: the project could provide postwar jobs. In Washington, Republican Senator George David Aiken of Vermont said he would offer the plan as an amendment to either the Flood Control Bill or the Rivers & Harbors Bill, both due for debate. He insisted that a treaty is not necessary. By executive decree the U.S. traded 50 destroyers to Great Britain in exchange for air bases. The Seaway project might be realized the same...
...industry's success is due to its having avoided direct competition with the Eastern makers of fancy women's clothes. Instead it concentrated on bold, original designs in women's casual clothes (trademark: "Made in California...
...York. Most experts had predicted a big drop in New York City's civilian registration. When the count was in, it was almost up to 1940. This was due largely to P.A.C. and its allies, the American Labor and Liberal Parties. P.A.C. and its allies then boosted F.D.R.'s city plurality above 1940-from 61.2% to 61.6%. This was enough to give F.D.R. the victory, even though Dewey got a bigger plurality upstate than Willkie...
Fourteen libraries, including Harvard's Widener, are taking part in a cooperative enterprise, the New England Deposit Library, the first of its kind, which is helping to ease the critical shortage of storage space due...