Word: smarter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Both Allied and German trade missions have been wooing Italy for weeks. The French, for instance, ordered Italian blankets. They paid for them even though the purchasing officer found he could stick his hand through them. A smarter French trick was to buy up all of Italy's spare locomotives-just to keep Germany from getting them. Great Britain has allowed Italian freighters loaded with German coal to proceed from Hamburg through the blockade, but only because it was hoped that the coal would keep Italian factories going,which in turn would produce goods for the Allies...