Word: prided
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Service airmen and civilian designers are well aware that the Germans are probably up to similar developments in engines, new fuels, new aircraft designs. But they are sure that the Germans cannot go as far, as fast, as either U.S. or British industry. Furthermore, they take a nationalistic pride in predicting that the U.S., if it has not done so already, will outstrip the British. For proof they point to the aircraft the U.S. now has in service, little more than two years after U.S. industry got the money and the green light for war-building...
While Harry Sinclair has his "soap" (his favorite word for cash in the bank), Standard thus has lost in both pride and purse. Meanwhile, to add insult to injury, it looks as if the British-whose original stake in Mexico (mainly Shell's) was estimated at more than that of the U.S.-may get back into booming Mexico. While the British Foreign Office still maintains a correct and haughty silence about the principles of expropriation, the oil industry is buzzing with rumors that British oil companies may make a realistic new deal to go in and operate their former...
...Pride Goeth Before...
Many of us thought the ignominy of saluting a Lieut. (j.g.) would be almost unbearable, but once you become used to it, it seems quite natural, and your pride suffers relatively little. Even the restrictions as to study hours are rendered harmless by the amount of material given out to be studied every...
Senator Alben Barldey of Kentucky clutched convulsively at his pride and howled in pain when he learned that Montana's Burton K. Wheeler had contended that Kentucky has a desert training center. "A desert in country like Kentucky!" Barkley cried. "Why, there is more sand and scrub in the City Park in Butte . . . than there is in the whole of the old Kentucky home." He found a transcript of the Montanan's remarks, fell to studying, presently announced that Wheeler must have had Fort Knox's cookery school in mind and meant to say "dessert...