Word: strengthened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other hand, the professor asserted, the defeat of Japan will be a decisive factor in a victory over Germany, since it will make available to the Allied powers such quantities of rubber, tin, petroleum and quinine as will tremendously strengthen our war effort. He stressed also that the defeat of Hitler, while Japan is still strong, might be followed by a noticeable divergence of purpose among the countries now opposed to Japan...
...India, Britain had a chance to strengthen the Allied position in the Middle East...
...restore public confidence in banking. A small town Wisconsin boy, a onetime grocery clerk, Mr. Crowley was eminent in Wisconsin church and business circles. Pope Pius XI decorated him with the Order of St. Gregory for his services. He was president of the Bank of Wisconsin, sponsored legislation to strengthen the State's banking system. Mr. Roosevelt made him chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation...
...strengthen Harvard's liberal curriculum, Dean Hanford has made several suggestions...
...victors alike." In contrast to the blockade of Germany after World War I, it called for immediate provision of food and other essentials after the war for every country needing them. "We must get back," explained Methodist Bishop Francis J. McConnell, "to a stable material prosperity not only to strengthen men's bodies but to strengthen their souls...