Word: expression
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Express-Train Tempo." Berlin's report to Sweden said: "The development of the Baltic and White Russian fronts is assuming express-train tempo. If the Russians cannot be halted along the Pskov-Polotsk line, sensational events can be expected in the Baltics in the nearest future...
...Canadian Pacific Air Line, which blankets most of the Dominion with vital north-south routes, but is barred from the lucrative transcontinental service by the Government-owned Trans-Canada Air Lines, carried 71,000 passengers and 11.5 million Ib. of mail and cargo. Earnings from C.P.-owned telegraph and express services, hotels, grain-and ore-carrying ships on the Great Lakes, and grain elevators scattered across the prairies, were high...
Great Hopes. Planner Herrey's belt highway, some 80 ft. high, would have six separate levels-for truck, bus, passenger and express traffic, two levels for parking. It would run between 9th and 10th Avenues and between 2nd and 3rd. Crosstown streets, much wider than present ones, would be laid out in pairs (e.g., an eastbound highway on the site of 40th Street, westbound on 42nd Street...
Darnand has even tried to extend his long arm to neutral Sweden. He asked Vichy's Chargé d'Affairs in Stockholm to report the names of all French prisoners of war who have escaped from Germany to Sweden and express anti-Vichy views. Penalty: sentences of death in absentia...
...Almost half of the Arabs refused to say how truthful they thought the stations were. Those who did express an opinion would not allow it to be recorded...