Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the British Empire and North Africa, and to a lesser extent from Russia and China, raw materials in increasing quantities are coming into the U.S. To the nation which forged Lend-Lease as a new weapon for war, this busy two-way traffic has posed a new question. Will Lend-Lease form a new basis of world trade in peace...
...performance, the WACs had proved themselves. The failure was not theirs but the nation's: U.S. women still refused to join up. That was Colonel Hobby's headache-and to a lesser degree it has become the headache of Captain Mildred H. McAfee of the WAVES, Commander Dorothy C. Stratton of the SPARS and Lieut. Colonel Ruth Cheney Streeter of the Marine Women's Reserve...
...Terrible Gustave Dore (Marchbanks Press; $2.50), a thoughtful reflection on that "agreeable terror." It is an unpretentious, revealing study. By comparing his subject with the surrealists, Author Hellmut Lehmann-Haupt, Manhattan teacher and bibliophile, deftly indicates the psychological sources of Dore's work. By recalling his lesser-known achievements in cartooning, the book rounds out the French giant of 19th-Century illustration for those who know him only in his solemn Inferno and Bible, farcical Rabelais and Droll Stories...
...sharpshooting, well-escorted Eighth mounted four attacks by 400 or more bombers, aimed at priority targets in Wilhelmshaven, Gelsenkirchen & Münster (twin target), Bremen (twice). Between these city-busters, heavy bombers in lesser force hit seven times at industrial targets in Germany and Norway; U.S. and R.A.F. medium bombers and fighter-bombers pecked away day & night in a precise pattern of attack on factories, airdromes, shipping, the Reich's outer defenses...
...take English shorthand notes of Russian conversation and vice versa, not they but History will decide the prime agenda of their talk. The course of history for a generation would be influenced by what they said. But as they began the Big Three would be driven no less than lesser men by the compulsions of History-past and History-present. Plainly, the first question which history poses to Franklin Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill, the one on which the other answers all depend is: How to defeat Germany most swiftly...