Word: tennesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first ten months of 1939, Germany cleared more than 10,000,000 tons of exports through Dutch ports alone. These outlets would be easy for the Allies to shut, and just as easy would be the two ends of the Mediterranean...
From denying their strategy, the Nazis turned to boasting about it, justifying it, instead of pretending the mines were British. They said their "objectives were being achieved." They said they were proving they could give ten shots for one. Some of their mines bore inscriptions, such as: WHEN THIS GOES UP, UP GOES CHURCHILL. They advised neutrals to shun British waters, trade with Germany instead. British waters, they said, were not mercantile fairways, subject to The Hague Convention of 1907 regulating sea warfare,* but military areas where enemy ships of war abound and must be attacked. They had been made...
...good as can be had in the U. S., set present German plane output at 1,500-to-1,800 per month, against about 1,000 for Britain,* plus 300-to-500 for France and 250-to-400 military planes for the U. S. (Even if each side loses ten planes a day, these figures if true mean that the air force of each side is evidently growing at the rate of more than 40 ships a day.) Expert Baldwin quoted official estimates of the potential of Germany's 28 factories and 400,000 workers at 5,000 planes...
...full count gave the relatively conservative Opposition 41 seats, a clear majority in the Constituent Assembly (76 seats). The supporters of Batista won only 35 seats. As the worsted Strong Man glowered in silence, Government supporters claimed that legal technicalities in validated the election results in the case of ten seats, all of these being seats won by the Opposition...
...double cross" play originally concocted by Fielding Yost for his point-a-minute teams), outsmart Ohio State's pow erful machine that had been beaten only once this season (by Cornell). Despite last week's loss (21-to-14), Ohio State finished in front in the Big Ten race (with five Conference victories, one defeat), nosed out Iowa's Iron Men who, unable to do more than tie Northwestern last week (7-to-7), wound up in second place with four victories, one defeat, one tie. Michigan and Northwestern, pre-season favorites, tied for fourth place with...