Word: gained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Army Commander-in-Chief Adolf Hitler made public on the day of the market break a decree providing in detail for army billeting and requisitions in Germany in case of war. "The common weal takes precedence over all private gain," says this decree; army officers "may demand from any person subject to this law that he permit the use of objects he owns or holds for safe keeping, or that he transfer his rights to movable objects" such as automobiles or trucks. Payment for services required of civilians is to be made only "in so far as the services cannot...
...hard cash reserves, leaving Rumania holding German promises to pay. This game the Nazis have been playing all over southeastern Europe and in Latin America for several years. Said Viitorul: "We cannot afford to tie ourselves solely to Germany, wherefore we welcome Britain's efforts to gain ground...
...representative at the London conference, at which Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy presided, was Albert Gain Black, Chief of the U. S. Bureau of Agricultural Economics. A drawling, scholarly man whose hair is the color of July wheat. Economist Black, 42, took to farming almost before he could wield a pitchfork, taught agricultural economics at Iowa State College for four years, joined the AAA's inner council in 1935. Well-qualified to expound the ever-normal granary plan to the London delegates, Economist Black nevertheless failed to convince them...
...formed a hollow square against which French cavalry charged repeatedly in vain. When the English were nearly exhausted, de Saxe ordered a general attack and threw in his Irish reserves. Within ten minutes the English abandoned the position which had cost them the best part of their army to gain...
...policy of noncooperation with France. Throughout much of the Arab world - from Asia Minor to Aden, from Tigris to Nile - there was dismay over this latest of a long list of betrayals by the Big Powers. For Turkey, former master of the Arabs, was clearly about to gain, with the tacit consent of the French, a valuable economic key to Arab nations...