Word: highs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...compare the facts in the case: in the protected waters of Alaska and British Columbia there are mountains of high grade iron ore and limestone, two of the essentials for making iron or steel, where the material can be quarried and placed on belts that take it directly to the vessel and then the limestone and iron ore can be taken by water to any point on Puget Sound, and at all times in protected water. Compare this with the conditions in Minnesota, for example, where they have to mine the ore, then take it by rail to the docks...
...radio retorted specifically, invited skeptics to telephone Willy Messerschmitt at his Augsburg home. One reporter who did so was Beach Conger, correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune, whom the Nazis squeezed out of Berlin last fortnight because he would not retract a dispatch picturing Adolf Hitler and his High Command at odds about invading The Netherlands. Mr. Conger and a British reporter named Geoffrey Cox telephoned Willy Messerschmitt from Amsterdam. The man who answered insisted he was the famed planemaker. "I haven't been out of Germany since the war started," he said. As to the vulnerability...
...force of each side is evidently growing at the rate of more than 40 ships a day.) Expert Baldwin quoted official estimates of the potential of Germany's 28 factories and 400,000 workers at 5,000 planes per month by spring, but reckoned this figure a bit high. U. S. output may reach 900 per month in 1940, but the Allies cannot count on buying...
...high school basketball teams played an exhibition game before a packed house of local coaches and officials last night on the Indoor Athletic Building floor in the annual rules demonstration of the Eastern Massachusetts Board of Approved Basketball Officials...
Somerville High School and Our Lady High School of Newton put on a match to show how the new convex backboard and the Last Bilt ball, both now under investigation by the rules committee, function in actual play...