Word: luckier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Many an Eastern commuter had seen idle cars on sidings. Their lessors pointed out that there was always a surplus of tank cars at this time of year, waiting for the normal summer rush. If the oil & chemical companies had a comfortable car margin, they were luckier-or more farsighted-than most shippers...
...tolerated by the New Deal as a candidate for two of its most sacred jobs: 1) integrating the U. S. with Latin America; 2) being President in 1944. If businessmen were unlucky to have the avowed New Dealers as enemies, they were not much luckier to have the New Deal's Schacht as a friend. He saved Business from the courts in order to put it to work for the Government. He helped make the Revolution respectable-more like evolution than it might have been...
...Another vessel of the northern patrol, the British submarine Spcarfisk, long overdue, was given up for lost last week. The submarine Sealion was luckier. Rammed by a German merchantman, who sheared off her periscopes and shook her up with depth charges, the Sealion wallowed for two days while making emergency repairs, got home safely...