Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...country's present misery and sorrow, Guy believes that it has one advantage over other democracies, the advantage of looking the truth squarely in the face. To win a war a nation must exert every possible effort and sacrifice to reach its goal. For seven consecutive years, Guy noted, Hitler has been pushing his people to the utmost in every field of work. Any country which expects to overcome that force must sacrifice everything to achieve that...
...only three out of the 21 questions did the group reach or nearly reach unanimity: 1) they agreed that Turkey could not avoid signing with or fighting Germany; 2) 16 believed that Turkey would sign within three months; 3) they unanimously agreed that Russia was a self-seeking neutral...
...Australian Labor Party, added to his criticism another note. "The battle for Britain is the kernel of the war, but there is also the battle for Australia. We must concentrate our minds on the Far Eastern position. . . . Frankly I am anxious to know whether sufficient naval assistance could reach us. Our strategy is necessarily a Pacific strategy. I want to insure in time that Australia is not left alone or communications with her forces abroad cut. Everything possible associated with the defense of our own shores must be uppermost in our minds while this crisis lasts." None too popular with...
Only businesses which will escape are industries with enormous capital invest ments and bad earnings records - meaning, above all, the railroads. Most of the carriers can multiply their profits before they reach the excess-profits minimum...
...material accounting, The Strategy of the Americas is no more open to a critical review than a telephone directory; but in its more ambitious role as a decisive argument for a non-interventionist national policy it is like nothing so much as a three-foot man trying to reach a six-foot conclusion...