Word: offset
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lauter Valley sector. He claimed to have surrounded 60 German villages. He had Saarbrikken under control (it was too heavily mined to take frontally), had covered with his artillery most of the coal mines and heavy industries in the Saar Valley (immensely important to the German economy and not offset by Silesia), putting them out of operation. He threatened paralysis of the Saar basin with his drive toward Mettlach, its big electric power centre. An enormous sustained French artillery pounding, presaged last week by increased aerial reconnaissance and exploratory fire, would be quite in keeping with the Liddell Hart "super...
...there much chance that the Allies would wish to buy ships useless to the U. S. At the outbreak of World War I, 34,825,000 tons of shipping were on the seas, at its end new construction had offset all but 1,784,000 tons lost in the War, scrapped. But at the outbreak of World
...Hollywood, between takes, Cinemactress Greta Garbo, the Swedish nonpareil, is wont to sit aloof and brooding. Metamorphosed by her light-comedy role in her picture-in-progress (Ninotschka), she joined the offset chatter, sometimes smiled right out loud...
...applications received in the same period last year. This reversal was due to a sharp drop in applications on houses already built. But applications for houses to be built ran only 15% ahead of last year against a margin of 68% enjoyed earlier in the year. To offset this, FHA this week made another reduction in the maximum interest rate-from 5% to 4½%. Reason: cutting the rate last year from 52% to 5% produced an immediate increase in building and New York City's new 4½% rate (introduced by Bowery Savings Bank) is continuing to bring...
...newsboy who belongs to the same religious order (Oblates of Mary Immaculate) as Quebec's Cardinal Villeneuve. To Father Roy, 50,000 Canadian Jocists, aged 14 to 25, look for spiritual inspiration. The mass marriage was his biggest effort to date in providing it. It would, he thought, offset "all the unfavorable publicity that marriage is getting in the world's divorce courts...