Word: waited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wealth and resources on the implements of war, but as this will be necessary if the Allies lose, should we not rather give them our full economic support now. Would it not be best to support those who fight on our first line of defence rather than to wait, preserving our neutrality like the people of Norway and the low countries until we find ourselves alone and friendless in a hostile world...
...discuss the battle, Let us wait and pray...
...Norway, Czechoslovakia, Sweden (with exhibits financed by their nationals in the U. S.). France, Great Britain altered some of their displays, turning them into restrained propaganda for U. S. sympathy. Belgium opened its impressive building on schedule. But Commissar General Joseph Gevaert postponed his speech, said he preferred to wait until fighting words are in order...
...forces from Liege after twelve days, first to Brussels, which fell in another four days; then to Antwerp, which held out 67 days longer, after the Germans turned on it to end Belgian sorties which were hampering their southward drive upon the French. Last week King Leopold had to wait only 90 minutes, instead of 17 days, before Belgium's sworn Allies marched in to his rescue and their own defense...
Next year, oil's flexible refining technology will be used with a more alert weather eye to adjust fuel oil-gasoline ratios more nearly to fit demand. Oilmen can only wait to see what war will bring by way of an export market. But always dependable are U. S. motorists; last week their demand for gasoline was up about 6% over 1939. Yet oilmen still had small reason to hope that rising U. S. consumption would knock the hump out of gasoline's inventory curve. Nor were war and winter alone to blame. More important than either...