Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Commenting first on the success of U.S. submarine warfare against Jap shipping, he discussed Portugal's granting of Azores facilities to the Allies; revealed that a staggering total of 855 U.S. planes, using 1,000,000 gallons of high octane gasoline, had participated in the blasting of Bremen and Vegesack; announced that Good Neighbor Venezuela's President, General Isaias Medina Angarita, would visit the U.S. before year's end; and finally took to task the five vocal globe-touring Senators whose criticism of the Administration and the British has caused international reverberations...
Despite all these handicaps, Wendell Willkie's St. Louis speech was a political success, just for what it said. He began by attacking Term...
...correspondent cabled: "[MacArthur] may have decided to risk his military future to bring home to London and Washington strategists what can be achieved by imaginative methods. . . . Success [at Rabaul] was calculated to make sponsors of alternative strategies reconsider the claims of the Southwest Pacific for a prominent role in the offensive against Japan...
...Power. De Luce found the Partisan movement assuming the proportions of military big business. "Until now [they] have relied for success on their own guerrilla skill. . . . [But now] there are more new soldiers than rifles-even counting the long-barreled old squirrel shooters of Balkan War vintage-and there is a job to finish that only planes and armored vehicles...
...recent faddism over self-taught (modern "primitive") painters has not spoiled thin, bespectacled Fred Papsdorf.He has had modest success and has gotten museum ranking after only six years of serious oil painting. But he still reminds art circles of the late, great, triumphantly simple Pittsburgh "primitive," John Kane...