Word: obtained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prize Ship. The United States Lines and Britain's great Cunard White Star Ltd. both began maneuvering to obtain North German Lloyd's 50,000-ton, blue-ribbon liner Europa, found in fairly good condition. Neither wanted the Europa's sister ship, the Bremen, so badly damaged that she was considered a total loss...
TIME, Feb. 19 carries a story of that new game, Check Pinochle. I am sure the men stationed here would welcome it. Could you tell us where we might obtain the rules...
Richard T. Gill '48, chairman of the political action committee of the H.L.U., marshaled Liberal Union forces yesterday in order to obtain 200 signatures in favor of the Fair Employment Practices Act, from residents of wards 9; 10, and 11 in North Cambridge...
...Working Class: the report that Russia intended to use the Free Germany Committee to create a pro-Russian German state was a "myth" based on "poisoned rumors." "From nothing has been erected a structure of lies. . . . The Soviet Union, much more than any other country . . . is anxious to obtain a solution . . . making . . . a revival of German aggression impossible. . . . Common . . . prejudice against the Soviet Union . . . is behind the readiness of . . . 'European experts' to imagine and spread all kinds of tales about Soviet policy, and the readiness of many editors to publish these tales without a twinge of conscience...
...ditty caught on with the U.S. troops, who bellowed it lustily in Trinidad's barracks and cafes. For more than a year Coca-Cola's local branch failed to notice the song's commercial potentialities; then they suddenly caught on and made furious attempts to obtain the rights to the song. But by then the Trinidad rights had been sewed up and the song imported to the U.S. by an up-&-coming radio funnyman named Morey Amsterdam...