Word: regain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Balkan nation which Russia is rumored to be egging on to regain the territory of Dobruja from Rumania...
...they continue to observe his voluntary program, Governor James figures producers will gain by: 1) more annual operating days per mine; 2) stabilized employment in working all mines the same number of days; 3) an equal opportunity to regain markets lost to competitive fuels. As for the bootleggers, the Governor hopes they will ultimately be absorbed by stabilized legitimate producers. This pious hope gains strength from the cooperative policy of neighboring States (New York. New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware), which have already narrowed the 'leggers' markets by import (stolen goods) restrictions...
Francis Taylor's predecessor as director of the Metropolitan, famed Egyptologist Herbert Eustis Winlock, resigned last April because of ill health. When he tackles the job next May, Director Taylor will face many a knotty problem. Chief problem will be to regain some of the initiative the Metropolitan has lost to younger, less stodgy Manhattan museums, notably the Museum of Modern Art in its shiny new blue glass home (TIME, May 22). There, instead of at the Metropolitan, will open next week the show of Renaissance masterpieces which Italy sent last year to the San Francisco Fair. Another poser...