Word: furtherance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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An unabashed new group, the American Veterans of World War II, has begun bidding against the big three veterans' organizations of World War I. The new group, known as AMVETS, is only one of scores of new veterans' organizations that bloomed last summer. But two months ago AMVETS...
The cause of the crisis was the question of Canadian Army reinforcements. Evidence had been piling up that reinforcements for Canada's overseas army were inadequate. In Calgary, Brigadier P. R. Shields, home after five years of fighting, said that when he left England "they were scraping the bottom...
From Chungking came censor-blurred reports of "Vinegar Joe's" further doings. There were reports of a new training plan for the Chinese Army. There were reports of more supplies to be sent into China over the Burma-Ledo road when it was finished. Backgrounding all the rumors were...
Wild bells (but perfectly controlled) rang out last week from the spire of Leicester Cathedral. For four solid hours campanologists* listened critically and with delight to the Cathedral's bashing, bonging bells hammering out the 5,280 changes of the Cambridge Surprise Maximus. A cause of further delight to...
British exports are necessarily made with imported materials: every increase in ex ports leads automatically to some increase in her purchases. And because of the war-induced rise in raw material prices, im ports now cost more. This further complicates the British problem.