Word: threefold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What the U.S. wants from Argentina and all the Americas is threefold: 1) speedy production of critical materials such as tin and rubber; 2) complete military cooperation with U.S. use of bases at strategic points; 3) a crackdown on Axis propagandists and German business firms "bootlegging" war materials through the Atlantic blockade. To get these, the U.S. has dollars, ships, markets and World War II's realism to bargain with in the smoke-filled committee rooms of the Itamaraty Palace...
...Modern war is a war of motors. The war will be won by him who will have an overwhelming superiority in the output of motors. If the production of motors in the United States, Great Britain and the Soviet Union is combined, then we will acquire at least a threefold superiority over that output of the Germans...
...Evans believes that chronic arthritis can often be prevented if oxygen is injected into the joints when they first begin to swell. The oxygen, he claims, has a threefold action: 1) it seems to act as a buffer between inflamed cells, separating them, opening lymph channels for drainage, and reducing pressure; 2) it probably kills certain types of bacteria; 3) it may neutralize poisons and stimulate local circulation of blood...
Philanthropist Rockefeller planned his charities as carefully as he planned his trust. His purpose was threefold: 1) to start object lessons in charity; 2) to start programs for others to carry on; 3) to start others giving by giving himself. But he was against setting up any charitable foundation "in perpetuity." Said Rockefeller: "Perpetuity is a pretty long time." With age John D. Sr. came to depend more & more on John D. Jr. to run his empire. He thought the young man did his job very well. But he ruthlessly curbed any tendency to spendthriftness...
...British strategists the attack was just a phase of the "master plan" of Chief of Air Staff Sir Charles Frederick Algernon Portal. As head of the Bomber Command, before his new appointment fortnight ago, he had been puncturing Hitler's boasts of German invulnerability with a threefold purpose: 1) to smash production and disrupt communications; 2) to render coastal ports useless as invasion springboards; 3) to crack German morale...