Word: sticking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Returning to post-war Germany, he was persuaded by Grand Admiral (then Captain) Erich Raeder to stick with the Navy-the crumb of a fleet left the Reich by the Versailles Treaty. He finally cast his lot with the Nazi Party solely because of his conviction that the upstart Brown Shirts would break down Versailles restrictions against recreation of his fleet. He gained powerful supporters in the German Inner Circle: Admiral Otto Schniewind, former director of naval education, now Chief of Staff of the German Navy High Command, is his close friend. The Luftwaffe's Hermann Göring...
...State Department's discomfiture, De Gaulle's commander, Vice Admiral Emile Henri Muselier, held a plebiscite. The 4,321 inhabitants voted 56-to-1 to stick with the Free French. The plebiscite suggested a way out to Cordell Hull. Last week the State Department sent General de Gaulle a formal note, asking him to withdraw his ships and men while the people of St. Pierre & Miquelon hold another plebiscite. Cordell Hull was confident that the vote would go the same way. But the ugly shadow of coercion would be lifted-and Vichy left with no grounds for accusing...
Like every other youngster at the Royal Military Academy at Breda, in the motherland, Cadet Hein ter Poorten had to make a choice before he entered. He had to decide where he would serve, and stick to his choice. He chose The Netherlands East Indies, went to his first post in Java rarely well-equipped. He was not only an artillery specialist. He was also an airman. After winning an international balloon race in Germany, he learned to fly an airplane in 1911, was one of the world's earliest military aviators...
...Stick your hand into a powerful electric induction coil. Nothing happens. Then stick a steel rod into it-the metal becomes red hot almost at once. This phenomenon is the basis of the fast-growing industry of induction heating: more induction equipment (using over 175,000,000 watts) was installed in the U.S. last year than in any previous three-year period. And today nearly all of it is used for smithing the weapons of war in arsenals, navy yards, private plants. Induction heating-with welding and substitution of casting for many forging operations-is one of the three...
...Jews, English, the Gold Standard, gunmakers, Roosevelt. U.S. students of short wave bracketed him with barefaced Lord Haw-Haw as another, but more harmless, renegade. Up to December 1941 he was still telling the U.S.-disconnectedl-what Pound wanted: "I want Roosevelt out of post-war matters. Let him stick to North America even if it means diminished gun sales for his pals. ... I do not see the U.S.A. having Fascism without years of training...