Word: jump
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bluff Ben Lear took a characteristically vigorous course. At the jump-off he bridged the Red River, skillfully moved his 125,000 men across, charged deep into the heart of the Blues. Spearhead of his thrust was the Armored Force. It bit deep into the Blue middle, then dropped out of sight, let the Blues worry about where it would appear next...
...from San Francisco to Singapore, with stopovers at Honolulu, Midway, Wake, Guam and Manila, about 12,000 ton-miles of freight flow weekly. During the first seven months of this year, the Clipper carried over 270,000 ton-miles of freight, a 20% jump over...
With the present program geared to including a lower record requirement, a normal course requirement, and a possibility of getting one full course reduction on Departmental recommendation. University Hall expects many Sophomores and Juniors to jump at the opportunity...
...prices hit $60 a ton (last week's price: about $47, an 18-year high). Wheat farmers have withheld so much (about 40%) of this year's bumper 950,000,000 bushel crop that the conservative Bureau of Agricultural Economics last week turned tipster, predicted wheat would jump another icxf; a bushel within a few months. It now figures 1941 U.S. cash farm income at $10,500,000,000, 15% above last year and the highest since...
...China's aims, the first is complete withdrawal of Japanese soldiers from Chinese soil. Japan is now willing to make "concessions," would jump at the chance to end the China war by retaining only part of China. If Japan will get completely out, then there is no difficulty in the Pacific which cannot be quickly settled. If Japan will not get completely out of China, then there can be no "thoroughgoing settlement" unless the U.S. attempts a sellout of China...