Word: swaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Behind the Hale-Penney swap was an object lesson: "How To Get On in the Real-Estate Business...
...Plan for Defeat. Hitler told the Germans that they must be willing to swap some of their conquered territory for military security. This statement was not merely an alibi for retreat. It was a clue to Germany's strategy of defeat...
...vegetables, horse meat) is unrationed. To replace scarce bananas they now serve a sweet potato; instead of Japanese ants, favorite food of many a zoo bird, they dish out a dried New Mexican water bug. Almost no animals have been imported in two years; zoos breed their own, and swap surplus stock. Lions are almost free for the asking...
...Chicago's Brookfield Zoo counted on the birth of 90 mammals, the hatching of an equal number of rare birds. Its latest swap brought two Central American quetzals, green-crested, scarlet-breasted "world's most beautiful bird," from New York's Bronx Zoo. Brookfield's starring attractions: 300 monkeys which clamber about sandstone cliffs, four giant eland from the Sudan, which may soon...
...venerable Ward La France Truck Corp., one of the biggest U.S. makers of fire engines and custom-built, heavy-duty trucks. With these two in the corral, he went after Connecticut Telephone & Electric Corp. (interphone systems, signal alarms, aviation equipment), last month arranged a share-for-share swap with his Great American...