Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From airdromes and ports already seized in southern Italy, bombers and warships can harry the Germans in Greece. Retreat northward, or a stand which in the end can gain them little, are the alternatives. If Albania falls to the Allies, Greece will become a trap for any Germans who remain...
What would peace gain Russia? First & last, peace-peace to heal her wounds and grow strong again, peace while other powers weaken themselves in war, peace with the boundaries and spheres of influence Russia wants...
...saying: "I fought against the fathers. Now I'm fighting the sons. ... I do honestly think the fathers were better soldiers. . . . Hitler has ruined the German Army. . . . The German Army is not a real army. It is an ersatz army. It is obsessed with the desire for gain. ... It is a commercial army, not a military one. . . . The quality of any troops must atrophy under such conditions...
...outside the struggle. As a neutral, she probably would have had great financial and commercial advantages. But Italy . . . had proclaimed her vital rights and placed before the conscience of the world her problems of expansion, raw materials and production. To have confined herself to a neutrality based on monetary gain would have been a definite renunciation of a century-old goal. That was the reason why we launched ourselves ardently into the battle...
...civilians' gain is the U.S. wool growers' loss. Sheepmen have enjoyed two years of Government orders, because domestic wool has been preferred in filling Army orders. This large demand sent U.S. wool prices up 33% from 1939 before ceilings were clamped on. Now the woolen mills, trapped in a price squeeze between OPA ceilings on finished goods for consumers, and high domestic wool prices, will use more of the enormous stocks of lower-cost Australian raw wool that cram U.S. warehouses...