Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ally France dickered for an agreement with Russia. But Author Scott believes that Britain at that time really wanted to see Russia crushed by Germany, was negotiating with Stalin principally to keep British leftists quiet. Russia, on the other hand, was using the British talks in Moscow to gain time. Stalin soon decided, says Author Scott, that he could get more from Germany than from Britain-an interlude of peace and, incidentally, half of Poland, the Baltic states, Finland. Hitler was ready to concede the territorial pawns in the game, if he could neutralize temporarily the Russian military threat...
...politics, and Washington must take care that it does not backfire. Darlan is valuable to the Allies because he controls the French Navy and is the official representative of Vichy France in Africa. If he should divert the prestige given him by the Allies into channels where it might gain him the support of the French people, he could become dangerous. Let him haul the Allied bandwagon, but keep a firm check on the reins...
...days before Comeford-to-Lyle, envisioned an oft-beaten Bulldog as the late November antidote for the early season blues. But Yale has taken full advantage of the masterpiece of confusion in the Eastern football picture, and it will be anything but an underdog Bulldog that will attempt to gain the first Yale victory over Harvard since...
...Hitler did not tell his people what it will cost the Nazi cause to allow the Allies to gain undisputed possession of Vichy Africa. If that object is achieved -and its achievement may be far from easy-the good points of the Allied strategy...
...down into South America. Now, if Canada comes in, Big Steel's control of reserves-and perhaps its pocketbook-will be further affected. But for the U.S. economy as a whole, for the first time facing possible exhaustion of its finest ores, Steep Rock is still a net gain...