Word: segments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japanese in danger spots on the Coast was necessary precaution; the Army had no way of knowing, and no time to spare in discovering, who among them were spies and saboteurs. But as the loyalty of individual members of that group became apparent, it became equally obvious that no segment of our population had accepted the hardships of war as uncomplainingly and as gracefully as the Japanese-Americans...
German armies poised on the outer borders of the industrial Donets Basin. But they did not have its mines, power plants and factories, or its roads to Caucasian oil. The Germans had forced a huge segment of Russia's industry back into the Urals, but they had not even won the approaches to that rear reservoir of might, where Russia's armies could be partly supplied even if most of Russia was lost. The Germans had the Crimea, they had Kerch on the Black Sea. But on their anniversary date they did not yet-not quite -have Sevastopol...
...Naval Communications Corps, a unit distinct from all other branches of the Navy now maintaining courses of instruction at Harvard University, will move 800 students into the Yard and the Union at about the same time that the first segment of the Class of '46 enters in June...
...latest excursion-pioneer Americana, a blend of history & hokum which has produced North West Mounted Police, Paramount's top grossing picture (about $2,500,000) of the last ten years. This calculated program has not produced one really fine motion picture, but it has long entertained the biggest segment of U.S. ticket buyers (modal...
...Japanese squeeze India through Burma and the Andaman Islands, they grasp at the biggest remaining segment of Britain's Empire. They close on United Nations routes to China, Russia and the Middle East. But, aside from India's strategic values, India also has an industrial area which is well worth grabbing for itself...