Word: gaine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Numerically the Social Democrats (Labor party) registered the greatest gain, getting 894,650 votes, an increase of 23% since 1939. But the vote was also a great tribute to the Conservative Party's leader, lion-maned John Christmas Moeller, who made a dramatic escape to England several months ago. His party's 421,050 votes represented the greatest proportionate advance, with a rise of 40%. Commented Mr. Moeller: "I have always said that only 3% of the Danish populations are pro-German...
...about six weeks the rainy prelude to the summer monsoon, which hits Burma in mid-June, will begin along the coast. It is unlikely that the British can clean up the area now and gain the comparatively dry central sector before the Burmese jungles are turned into a pesthole of mud and malaria. Not until some time in October does the monsoon end. Not until then could the Allies launch a major offensive to reopen the Burma route to famished China...
...meaning was clear: he planned to turn his demand for a $2-a-day wage increase into an all-out assault on the Administration's Maginot Line against inflation. Behind the line the Administration worked frantically on its defenses. First move: a delaying action designed to gain another month for negotiation. For if John Lewis gets his raise, he will have breached the War Labor Board's "Little Steel formula," which limits raises to 15% since...
...were originally ineligible, but the Army changed the rules on Monday. Mil Set 3 and 4 presumably serve no purpose by taking the exam, Air Force Reservists have nothing to gain, but ERC premedics and engineers should take...
...want to do after the victory is won. Some of them are reading books and articles. Most of them are talking about the postwar world in their own language. They are the world's two billion people, and in the broad sweep of history, as they struggle to gain what they want, their hopes and their works outweigh the promises of leaders and all the plans of the planners...