Word: oils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before 1943 ended the Germans lost Sicily, southern Italy, the Donetz basin. With 1944 the Germans lost White Russia, the remainder of the Ukraine, half of Poland, most of the Balkans. Their aircraft plants and oil refineries were progressively reduced by the vast new weapon of the Allies: air power. Last week, captive Field Marshall Gerd von Rundstedt named Allied air superiority as the biggest single reason for Germany's final defeat...
...Poonsters, however, have not been idle in their frantic efforts to foil the oncoming CRIMSON tide. Midnight in the Bow Street aviary has been the scene for oil burning as the board of ibitors plotted their revenge. Coming up with a plan they hope will succeed, the funnymen have spent the past week drafting strong arm plug uglies into their organization in an effort to crowd the roster with big time sluggers
Only the Saudi Arabian princes, wearing burnooses and traveling in limousines supplied by Standard Oil, lent an exotic touch. Spotting the Arabs at the Opera House, a glamor-hungry spectator sighed: "This is more like it." For the most part the San Francisco conferees wore drab, diplomatic grey and black...
...world's half-forgotten wars moved on in southern Burma. The advancing British Fourteenth Army neared Rangoon. The oil towns of Yenangyaung and Magwe fell; so did Toungoo. The foe seemed weak and confused: a single Japanese sentry stepped out to stop a British tank and was run over...
nation's first and most outstanding antiprohibitionists and a large segment of voters kept their eyes on him. As a politician, he had an unhappy faculty for backing the loser: the Kaiser until World War I, Harding until the oil scandals, the early Mussolini who made the trains run on time. Despite his good words for academic freedom, students and teachers often denounced his conservative leanings. Since World War II began, Dr. Butler has been comparatively silent on extracurricular matters. In the house at 60 Morningside Drive which Columbia has built around him, and around which he has built...