Word: outlet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...miles of the Finnish-Norwegian frontier, while all along that same line the desperate Finns were battling to delay the swift Russian advance. The Russians had cut off Finland's only outlet to the Arctic Ocean, were holding the northern end of the Arctic Highway, and were again threatening the Finnish supply lines from Sweden by a swift southward thrust on the highway...
...issued an appeal, got newspapers to accept contributions for Finnish relief, telephoned an address to a mass meeting in Manhattan. He wrote: "America has a duty to do its part in the relief of the hideous suffering of the Finnish people. Our people should have an outlet in which to express their individual and practical sympathy...
Famed German subsea minelayer of World War I was U-J5, which sowed the northwest outlet of Scapa Flow. The British knew she was working there and diligently swept up after her. What they did not know was that U-J5's mine-carrying capacity had been increased by 16 over older models. After they had swept up the supposedly correct number (20) of mines, they let their ships go out through the field and one of the extra mines blew up the cruiser Hampshire, with War Secretary Earl Kitchener aboard. Other submarine-mining triumphs of 1914-18 were...
Since 1934 Chicago's mammoth Marshall Field & Co., depression-riven, has had its face lifted. Shorn of its wholesale division, many a retail outlet and mill, the company turned a 1937 deficit of $1,654,452 into a 1938 profit of $3,492,238. Last week, with three-quarters earnings of $1,718,458 up 58% from 1938, blue-eyed chubby-cheeked President Frederick Dexter Corley offered a plan and a plum to stockholders...
Business candidates are offered a unique chance to learn all about the practical side of a daily paper. Men interested in finance as a career will find a fascinating outlet for their ambitions in CRIMSON business work, an outlet that will provide them with a sound knowledge of the fundamentals of commercial relations. Advertising, copy-writing, and the handling and development of personal business contacts are only a few of the problems mastered by candidates in this department...