Word: furthers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: Everyone is hearing a lot about building extra locks for the Panama Canal in case a lock was destroyed by air-attack from bombers [TIME, Aug. 28]. Could not the extra lock be put out of operation just as easily as the present one, if not the same day...
Strategy of General Gamelin's push in the Saar was to draw German troops from the Eastern Theatre to meet a threatened grand attack-or he was shrewdly waiting for the Germans to get even further into Poland before turning on the real heat. Just as France's...
Chemicals-Allied, du Pont and Union Carbide-rose 10-14%. Oils rose further and Texas Corp. led oils, up 23%.
"He gave his word after Munich that he had no further territorial demands in Europe; he broke it.
Commodity exchanges went war-wild. Sugar and wheat, essentials for warring nations and their armies, got away in front and by the first day's end had advanced the maximum permissible limits set by the Commodity Exchange Administration (5 to 8 for wheat, for sugar). Popeyed at the spurt but...