Word: pulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unless President Roosevelt could pull off a political miracle, it now seemed certain that Congress will definitely not vote the high taxes which the Administration demands. The best that the Administration can hope for on subsidies, due to expire Dec. 31, is a 60-day postponement of the battle, followed by a compromise which would retain some subsidies, kill others off cold...
...could the enemy cut down on manpower but on first-class manpower. German prisoners taken in the Monte Samucre sector were not top material for Panzer Grenadiers. They did not have to be. Cracked a U.S. officer: "All they had to do was sit in those damn pillboxes and pull a trigger...
Three of the five great powers will have disappeared. France has gone, and if ever she returns it will be a hard and a long upward pull for her to emerge again. Italy has completely disappeared and may never be a great power again. Germany will disappear. Germany, at the end of this war, will have disappeared perhaps never to emerge again in the old form. Nobody knows...
...supplies alumina (the oxide from which aluminum is made) from its Mobile plant to the two others, operated by Reynolds Metals Co. and by Olin Corp., a subsidiary of Western Cartridge. Come peace and an end to WPB's control of alumina, Alcoa might decide to pull out of the two DPC plants and cut off alumina. This could kill the new industry...
...they are skillful, fare best. There is money to be made and real wealth to be salted away against better postwar years. But those who do the best must be prepared to hear epithets like "hoarder" and "smuggler," must expect their neighbors to assume that they are using "pull." Over & over, the hard-pressed tell each other that "The Gang," the favored few who know how to obtain licenses to trade in foreign currency, are lining pockets, putting down anchors where they will do the most good if chaos should come...