Word: obtained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...meeting was addressed also by Lt. (j.g.) K. L. Brooks, SC, assistant War Bond officer of the First Naval District, who outlined the mechanics of the drive. Its purpose is to obtain the largest possible number of allotments of income for bond purchases form men studying communications...
...order to obtain the five gallons of gasoline established as the armed force leave quota, the registration number of the automobile used must be presented with the application. The certificate issued is so worded that the fuel allowance is to be used in this one car only...
Members of the V-12 Unit not planning to leave the vicinity during the coming mid-term leave may obtain these rations from the Cambridge board located in the City Hall...
Since the Culbertson Plan was condemned as a confederation in which too little sovereignty is surrendered by the member states to make possible an effective world government, and since at the same time it was admitted that it would be impossible at this time to obtain enough surrender of sovereignty by national states to permit the creation of a true federation, the implication was that we should work for a United States of the World which, though unattainable now, might be founded at some future date when public opinion had changed and nationalism diminished...
...reached our line of departure; yet the German guns were on us already. As we learned later, the Germans were so sure of where we were going to land that they brought their defenses right onto our beach. Trees, brush and all obstacles were cut down so as to obtain a clear field of fire. Nothing was left to chance. Machine guns fired only in certain zones; the zones interlocked. Almost on the water's edge, in some cases only 50 yd. apart, machine guns were set up facing the sea. Fifty yards from the beach four-barreled machine...