Word: hulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dealers, who had counted on Wallace to do the fighting, were disappointed. Some editorial writers were pained. Henry Wallace told farmers who had always been Republicans (except for their two votes for Franklin Roosevelt) that Hitler wanted the Republican Party to win. To violently protectionist cattlemen, he praised the Hull trade treaties...
...Hull down over the horizon, the British capital ships' 15-inchers blasted away at the harbor (top right). The French ships, still at anchor when the bombardment began, were lined up for the slaughter. Those with steam up, hastily got under way. Taken from the upper works of a tall ship (probably the Dunkerque) the picture (lower right) shows the 26,500-ton battle cruiser Strasbourg, whose stern is visible beyond the bridge of the Provence (in the foreground), starting to pull out. Beyond her, the sister ship of the Provence, the 22,189-ton battleship Bretagne has already...
...call him able, shrewd, liberal, weary, lazy, cynical. When he was given the Republican nomination for Vice President they predicted that he would show no enthusiasm in his campaign, if he campaigned at all. They said that since he had voted for TYA, Bonneville Dam, had steadily fought the Hull reciprocal trade agreements, he and Wendell Willkie were on opposite sides of the fence and could never get along...
...centre. So did Derby, where Rolls-Royce engines are made for Britain's Spitfire and Hurricane fighters. Other motor and aircraft factories at Birmingham and Coventry, attacked before, were attacked again & again. While the Germans hammered these targets, they continued pounding at seaports: Cardiff, Bristol, Portsmouth, Harwich, Dungeness, Hull. Only British stubbornness prevented the evacuation last week of such smashed-up places as Ramsgate, Dover, Southampton (see col. j). In the headlines appeared damage to such sentimental landmarks as St. Giles, Crip-plegate, in London where Oliver Cromwell was married and John Milton buried. Milton's statue...
Liverpool and Hull, as the seaward ventricle and auricle of the region, are prime targets of Britain's midsection. York, Derby, Peterborough, Spalding, Stafford, Shrewsbury, Chester are especially vulnerable railroad junctions. Great Grimsby on the Humber, normally a fishing port, became with the onset of war the home of a minesweeping fleet and a big oil depot. (Near it stands the radio station to Australia.) Leeds is the centre of Britain's meat (and leather) industry. At York is the G. H. Q. of the British Army's northern command...