Word: salient
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quiet on the continent of Africa last week. Only important development in the Kenya campaign was the withdrawal of British troops from Buna, at the mouth of the Moyale salient occupied by Italian troops (TIME, July 22, et seq.). Water is more important than steel in desert warfare. The British claimed that the water supply of Buna was sufficient for only a small garrison, and that the wells were within range of strategic hills from which the enemy could shell them. But what the British troops apparently feared more than thirst was a nutcracker attack which would flank Buna...
...town coroners last week, Dr. Wadsworth sounded off on "pseudo-experts, damned-old-fool judges, tissue-grabbing pathologists, psychopath lawyers." He gave a lecture on ballistics which mocked many a detective-story cliche. Salient points...
Last week famed Biologist Kenneth Manley Smith of Cambridge University published a full account of this hostile force called The Virus, Life's Enemy (Macmillan, $2). Salient facts...
Last week a FORTUNE Poll, taken between the Republican and Democratic Conventions, reported some of the most sensational reversals in public opinion to date, indicated that President Roosevelt would carry little outside the Solid South (see col. 3) if the election were held immediately after the Conventions. Salient FORTUNE findings...
...Salient: the 20-day cooling period that must by law elapse between the registration and sale of any new security. During the 20 days, underwriters and dealers chew their nails, hark nervously for stop orders, sometimes watch a good market turn into a bad one (leaving them holding the bag). When Emmett ("Spike") Connely became president of the Investment Bankers Association last year and declared open war on the Securities Acts, the 20-day clause was his first objective...