Word: portions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your military training, while occupying a smaller portion of your time is equally important. You will shortly take your place with your predecessors alongside the officers of the regular line, and it behooves you to prepare yourselves to the very best of your abilities while there is yet time...
Sumner Slichter's study, liberally strewn with tables, footnotes and no-one-knows-for-sure warnings, was mainly an attempt to differentiate between "hot," "warm" and "cold" savings: i.e., to isolate that portion of the total gap between wartime income and expenditures that can really be expected to inflate prices. His cheerful conclusions came from the fact that his computations showed much larger "warm" and "cold"' savings (war bonds, reduction of short-term debt, etc.) than "hot" ones (cash and demand deposits)* He believes that the average U.S. citizen is going to want to hang...
...been removed and whose supply lines were paralyzed. . . . Today in Italy we are faced with nearly 20 German divisions; beyond Italy are the Alps, a formidable natural defense line, and many more German divisions. At the present time, Germany is capable of opposing any attack on a vital portion of her European defense with at least ten times the German forces defeated in Sicily...
...front was still in the plans of the High Command, gathering weight. When it came, Churchill warned, it would be the "bloodiest portion of the war." When that time would be was the High Command's secret. Also a deep secret was its route. The shortest way is across France and the Low Countries, the same road over which the Wehrmacht poured...
...graduation yesterday was for class 4-43 and a portion of class...