Word: weaker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...twelve years, Pan American Airways Corp. has had a U. S. monopoly on intercontinental air transportation. Its huge Sikorskys, Boeings, Martins and Douglases have flashed through skies clear of competition, except for three or four weaker foreign-owned airlines. An aerial trail blazer, Pan Am has nosed southward into South America; westward to Hawaii, China, Australia, New Zealand; eastward to Europe. With few rivals, Pan Am could take its time pathfinding, make sure its explorations would pay. It has made money since 1931, $1,984,000 last year...
...October 5 Amherst comes to Cambridge to raise the curtain on the Crimson season. The Lord Jeffs are rated much weaker than they were a year ago but still qualify as above par opening day opposition...
...talked more with U. S. correspondents than any other Tokyo leader, knew pretty well the U. S. state of mind. He knew that Americans considered the China war a nuisance (since it kept the U. S. Fleet tied down in the wrong ocean), a tragedy (because the weaker and righter side seemed to U. S. citizens to be the same), a reproach (because self-righteous Americans thought the U. S. should have been able to end the war long ago). But hfc also knew that the U. S. was divided umpteen ways on what to do about...
...Italian grip at the southern entrance of the Red Sea was weaker because the Italian squadron in East Africa was only strong for commerce raiding, not to meet any major British squadron in battle. But the British had to break the Italian grip in order to feel comfortable, and this would involve a campaign against the Italian ports in that area and against Ethiopia...
Barrage. In place of the artillery barrage which used to precede tank attacks on strongly held positions, the air arm led the way. Attack-bombers swooping low (to 300 feet) in endless triads blasted forts and weaker defense positions. They sprayed the defenders and their gun crews with machine-gun fire, turned and dumped their bomb loads. Other planes laid smoke screens for tanks to charge under. Allied gun crews had to resort to plotted area fire...