Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germans still have many U-boats. Some day, perhaps when the second front is launched, they will be thrown in as a wolf pack, exceeding in size any that has ever struck before. But the undersea war has become so tough for the Germans that they have had to limit operations sharply in order to preserve their U-boat fleet...
...Only the American Legion was missing from the list of sponsors: Veterans of Foreign Wars, Army and Navy Union, Disabled American Veterans, Military Order of the Purple Heart, Regular Veterans'Association. Bonuses would be figured at the rate of $3 a day for home service (with a top limit of $3,500) and $4 a day for overseas service. To at least seven members of the U.S. House this prospect was no fantasy. They jointly introduced a bill to make it come true...
Then he asserted what all Britons yearn to believe: that Britain will lose nothing in the give-& -take. Said Eden: "Many have a suspicion that ... we have committed ourselves to limit or exclude our interest in certain parts of Europe...
Over Their Shoulder. The decision to limit AMG rule in Italy goes back...
...they must to all sportsmen, poker and craps finally came to the White Sea League.* Three-day games of five-card stud, with table stakes, no limit, became routine. The poker ended abruptly when one ship won $1,992, leaving $8 as total capital among the other three. Craps redistributed the wealth, but not for long. A few days before the convoy finally sailed, the game became the property of two shipmates. One, a Yale alumnus, owned the dice. The other, a Sing Sing alumnus, had all the money...