Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Godin, whose capable pitching is responsible for three of the victories, will start today, while Red Connolly muses on the West Point batting power he must confront tomorrow. Opposing Godin will be Bob Swanson, who silenced those same Army hitters last week to help his team win, 2 to 1, over the Point...
Even without the draft to help them out, Navy is the logical candidate to win the Adams Cup tomorrow in the triangular contest over the Henley distance, The Middies have seven veterans from last year's formidable boatload, and as if that weren't enough, they have already turned in comfortable victories over both Princeton and Yale...
...return of Jud Gale to the Crimson shell may help to bring down the odds on the Harvards, but experts still rate the Sailors favorites on the basis of past performance and on their greater backlog of experience. But Tom Bolles' charges seemed destined for at least a second-place, since their Pennsylvania hosts are not too highly regarded in informed quarters...
...Monaco government, which owns 10% of the Société shares, had been no help, said Delpierre. It had backed union demands for higher wages while refusing to reduce its cut of 15,000,000 francs-some $125,000. (The Prince of Monaco also gets a cut.) The hard-pressed Société cut the work week, gave all hands a month's leave a year without pay, reduced the staff of 1,487 by lowering the retirement age. On their part, Monégasques blamed the Société for bad management and two poor...
Save Franco. When Hitler needed Spain's military help, Franco pleaded unreadiness. Hitler reminded the little Caudillo that without Hitler and Mussolini there would have been no Fascist Spain. Franco placated the Führer by refueling Nazi submarines with U.S. oil, giving German spies a free hand, and turning over the Spanish press to Axis propagandists. (Hitler had kept an itemized bill for his aid to Franco during the Spanish Civil War; Franco made payments on it all through World War II with U.S. food and oil and Spanish strategic materials which, he told the Allies, Hitler would...