Word: extended
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before Pearl Harbor, only regular Army troops were allowed by law outside the Hemisphere, except U.S. territory. Suddenly Army & Navy were called upon to extend themselves on a dozen or more world fronts, all of enormous importance...
...despite the high tension. President Manuel Avila Camacho was really moving very cautiously. To be sure, war would give his rightist Government a chance to "unify" Mexico, extend controls over labor, prices, economic resources, keep the business boom from going hog-wild. He was being urged hard toward war by Foreign Minister Padilla, who saw it as the culmination of his hemispheric policy, and by the great Communist-led labor groups who wanted a crusade against Fascism in alliance with Russia...
...first session of the school ends with a two-day examination period on August 7 and 8, and students will plunge on into the second session the next Monday. Again at the end of the summer period in September, examinations will extend through Saturday the 19th, leaving students one week of vacation before College starts on September...
Australia now understood that it was only the first phase of the Jap's attempt to extend to the south and that he would try again, stronger than before...
Because last night's dimout failed even to approach the goal set by the military authorities, the regulations may extend 15 miles inland. Cambridge officials were planning to paint over the streetlights so as to darken them until suitable shields could be constructed to prevent any light from glowing upward, but the dissatisfaction of the Army and Navy over the effect measures taken thus far have had may necessitate even more drastic action here...