Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hull: "To gain more territory...
...Fleet on that Friday morning was surpassed only by the German scuttling of the Kaiser's High Sea Fleet in June 1919 at Scapa Flow. Though it did not alter the balance of world naval power, it relieved the Allies finally of the threat that Adolf Hitler might gain the ships-which he unquestionably had attempted to do-and use them in the Battle of the Mediterranean. Since most of the French vessels had reportedly been blown up, there was little chance that the Germans could salvage them for their own use. But it was possible that remaining French...
...world's most advanced tire factory" is being dismantled for shipment to Russia. An integral part of River Rouge, it was designed on a streamlined rubber-freighter-to-finished-Lizzie basis five years ago. Its sale is a happy one for all concerned: the U.S.S.R. will gain a steady supply of more than 1,000,000 tires a year; the U.S. Government will fulfill a year-old promise to deliver such a plant to Russia, and Henry Ford will get Lend-Lease cash for a peacetime plant he no longer needs...
There is still time to enroll in the course, and students are urged to take advantage of this opportunity to increase their reading efficiency. The $10 fee charged is more than compensated by the results obtained, for the records show an average gain of 100 words per minute by those who successfully complete this training. The class will meet Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 8 o'clock and Tuesday and Thursday at 4 o'clock, under the instruction of Harvey A. Robinson '38, who has been associated with the reading courses for several years...
Round Three. Next it was Hitler's turn. France was crushed and Britain expected invasion. To gain time to build up the Red Army, Stalin played the German pact for all it was worth. Cracked a British reporter: "Russia has become the largest of the small frightened neutrals." In the first nine months of 1940 Russia shipped nearly 1,000,000 tons of oil and huge quantities of fodder and grain to Germany. Russian industrial production was ruthlessly stepped up (it became a crime for a worker to arrive more than 20 minutes late). Marshal Timoshenko...