Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that he can stave off inflation indefinitely. But, under his regime, matters have improved. With U.S. help, Brazil is producing many manufactures which she could not buy abroad. She has bolstered her defenses.* She recently announced a plan to pay off her long-defaulted foreign debt. She began to shift her agriculture away from disastrous, one-crop dependence on coffee alone. And she is supplying increasing amounts of strategic materials (figures secret...
...flock of resignations from OWI's London staff signaled a shift in emphasis from civilian propaganda to military information (i.e., no information...
...Cairo conference is interpreted in the Southeast Asia headquarters as a definite turning point; the war against Japan will shift from a limited holding offensive to an Allied drive for victory. Grand-scale action will not follow immediately, but from here on the war against Japan has a good chance of being a coordinated, well-timed effort reaching the scale of a first-class offensive some time...
...Shift. In clothes-rationed London, shift-hungry women hit on a makeshift: unrationed blackout cloth...
...been assigned to the fifth wave, commanded by Major Howard Rice, which would reach the beach 31 minutes later, presumably after the first four waves had established comfortable positions. But now it was obvious that H Hour would be delayed because the Jap fire had forced the transports to shift to a safer area...