Word: reaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that, with 170,000 men already at work in its plants, it will have 240,000 by fall. The aircraft plants, munitions factories, all the rest of the war's 50% of U.S. production will need more help, by the millions. And the farmers, encouraged to sow and reap the vastest harvest ever seen, have not yet been heard from. The weight of war was beginning to press on every U.S. home...
...last precipice over which Blithe Spirit might have toppled is skirted too: the production is delightful, with a trio of actresses nosing out suave Clifton Webb to reap most of the glory. Graceful English Leonora Corbett romps amusingly as the twitting first wife; Peggy Wood (Old Acquaintance) huffs expertly as the twitted second one; and Mildred Natwick (Missouri Legend) plays the medium-who in her trances is wild-eyed as a witch on a broomstick, in her waking moments hearty and chin-up as a Girl Guide leader -with prodigious humor and bounce...
...sure, if Russia and Japan fought, the Chinese would still reap immediate advantages. There would be a relaxation of pressure all along the front. Japan might withdraw enough troops to forfeit many secondary outposts to the Chinese. Chinese Communists no doubt would be slower to quarrel with the Central Government, more active against Japan...
...American history when the country was shocked by the revelations of the Senato's investigation of the munitions industry and by the claims repeatedly printed in books, magazines and newspapers that the first World War "was the work of a little group of why intriguers who hoped to reap the profits of war or who feared for their investments abroad...
...thousands who paid their dollar and joined the Coop a year ago will be able to reap the profits from their investments on October 14. George C. Cole, manager of the Coop announced yesterday...