Word: equality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...missing totaled 5,579. To the British Empire, the cost was far greater: 2,570 ships, of 11,380,000 gross tons; 30,000 mariners dead or missing. For all the Allies and the few neutrals, the monstrous total stood: 4,770 ships, 21,140,000 gross tons:-equal to the British Empire's entire prewar merchant fleet, then by far the world's largest. In Kipling's words...
After nine months of bitter fighting, the end of the Philippine campaign was in sight. Even a few Japanese could see it. In three days 38th Division troops took 46 prisoners, probably a record for any equal period in General MacArthur's campaigns. But the rest of the Japs fought doggedly...
...appointment might also do much to halt the deterioration of Sino-Russian relations. No longer could it convincingly be charged that, as Acting. Premier, T. V. Soong was merely a figurehead in the Chungking Government. As Premier, his rank would enable him to negotiate on an equal footing with Prime Minister Winston Churchill or Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov (Soong is also China's Foreign Minister...
Cooper's purchase will also give the Braves a box-office attraction equal to their American League rivals-the Boston Red Sox' Dave Ferriss. Discharged from the Air Forces because of chronic asthma, Ferriss has thus far pitched six complete games, won them all (four shutouts) and allowed just three earned runs in 54 innings...
Aleut males shared their wives and money with equal unconcern. Every member of the community received an equal share from the sale (to Husband Thornie's company) of the island's blue-fox pelts, whether or not he had helped in the trapping. Chief Dirks, who invariably retreated to his bed when any trouble loomed, explained the system: "Mike Creveden very lazy, no catch foxes, only two or three. We say shouldn't do that but he say he lazy and can't help...