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...outset I send you and Lady Wavell my thanks for your kind condolences on the death of my wife. Though for her sake I have welcomed her death as bringing freedom from living agony, I feel the loss more than I had thought I should. We were a couple outside the ordinary. It was in 1906 that by mutual consent and after unconscious trials we definitely adopted self-restraint as the rule of life. To my great joy this knit us together as never before. ... I now come to your address which you delivered before the Legislature and of which...
Trouble loomed from the outset. Soon after Italy capitulated, a handful of British airborne troops took a handful of Dodecanese and Aegean islands off Turkey's west coast. Their aim: air bases, harbors from which to harass from the rear the Nazis' outer chain of Balkan defenses-the islands of Rhodes, Scarpanto and Crete...
...Each participating nation would be required to pay 50% of its share to the central fund in gold (the balance in currency or securities) instead of 25% as under the original plan. It would also be required to pay its share in full at the outset, instead of making down payment of 50%. Thus the revised plan quadruples the amount of gold each country would have to contribute...
...prewar monopolistic position was unpalatable to many U.S. citizens. The "chosen instrument" policy represents this change in Trippe's thinking. And Pan Am, by sheer force of equipment and know-how, would merit the lion's share of any postwar U.S. combine-at least at the outset...
There was never any doubt as to the ultimate winner, Yale leading from the outset. But Harvards' Dave Barnes pleased his many friends in the crowd and surprised the Elis no little with the only double victory of the night--an amazingly narrow win in the 220, and an easier victory...