Word: losses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Actual loss of life was not great, Arab strategy being to take pot shots from housetops, destroy Jewish property whenever possible, then hustle off to bury their rifles in the ground behind their houses before British patrols could find them. British company commanders issued an order: Every shot from a hidden Arab sniper must be answered with a burst of 50 shots from an automatic rifle...
...this scared the Radical Socialists, the Popular Front moderate wing, out of their wits. Threatened with the loss of their essential support or with domination by his unruly Communist allies in the next Chamber of Deputies, Leon Blum last week hastened to confer with lame-duck Premier Albert Sarraut...
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...loss of this school to Harvard is doubly regrettable when it is considered that ever since the founding of the school, the demand for qualified men in this field has far exceeded the supply. An appreciable percentage of the students attending the Harvard school have been lured away by the offer of excellent jobs, before they had completed the requirements for a degree...
...Japanese cotton cloth by a thumping 42%. Certain results of this move will be to put more money in the pockets of U. S. textile millers, make U. S. consumers pay more for nightgowns, children's underwear, men's handkerchiefs. A possible result may be the loss to U. S. cotton-growers of an appreciable part of their best market. The President's explanation of this set-back to his trade-expansion program was that he proposes to lower tariffs only on goods which will not harm U. S. industries, whereas imports of Japanese cloth were definitely...