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...than busy little sea shepherds. Psychologically they were projected to the bulk of battleships; they became a new hope of victory, a pledge that Britain was not alone, a shock to Axis complacency-all by the simple fact of a horse trade. The U. S. swapped 50 "over-age" flush-decker destroyers for eight Atlantic bases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Plus Fifty | 9/16/1940 | See Source »

...empire Adolf Hitler may have, his Ambassador's declaration to Japan seemed to mean that they can wait. Adolf Hitler is a man who does one thing at a time. Last week he was preoccupied with trying to knock out his archenemies, Britain and France, and in the flush of that triumph to build his new Europe which Germany would dominate for 1,000 years. Although France and Britain were still on their feet, they were so groggy that spectators were busy speculating on what sort of Europe Adolf Hitler's Europe would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER POLITICS: Hitler's Europe | 6/3/1940 | See Source »

...taking orders from Governor Norman's new board, on which were the president of the cartel Viscount Greenwood, other old-line steel bigwigs, some of Richard Thomas' own competitors. Some of these were induced to resign last summer in favor of a "more representative" board, and the flush business of building Sir John Anderson's air-raid shelters postponed further disagreement until last month. Then Sir William Firth was fired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STEEL: Sabotage at Ebbw Va!e? | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

...world and not be in it any more. they wouldn't--we feel sure--think of themselves as heroes for that. Everybody gets called out of the march sooner or later and maybe (they thought) it isn't so had to be called out in the full flush of satisfaction with doing a good job well...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TEXT OF LETTER FROM THE CLASS OF 1917 | 5/21/1940 | See Source »

mass-production industries, most of which depend on nonwar markets, have not been cushioned by flush export business against domestic recession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: State of Exports | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

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