Word: obtaining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...monopoly supply of the world's helium comes from gas wells owned and operated by the U. S. Government. In July helium gas was reported discovered in Brazil. Chances are that if Brazil develops a helium supply, Germany will obtain it there...
Roads and Rails. Chief problem of the new "New China," almost completely cut off from the sea, is to keep open its routes to the outside world, to obtain supplies, trucks, motor parts, heavy machinery, oil, ammunition. While China's soldiers inched backward from the coastal provinces, China's coolies began the Herculean job of opening four main overland routes to western China...
These last several years I have attempted to obtain a Government loan for the better operation of my farm...
Another part of the work of the committee will be to obtain affidavits from citizens of the United States sponsoring the students, to send to immigration officials...
...Nazi government realizes that, should the Italian peninsula and Tunisia be joined under the same rule, Mussolini would obtain strategic control over the Mediterranean. And the dominance of this sea by any single nation would imperil the "drang nach Osten." Recent events have only emphasized the importance to Germany of maintaining the divided control there is at present; for the Reich, barred by a hostile Rumania from access to the Black Sea, is now trying to make Yugoslavia her vassal and Mediterranean outlet. German interests have thus come into conflict with the Italian dream of a "Mare Nostrum...