Word: add
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Add this small (but far from still) voice to the others in favor of peacetime conscription. Add also this suggestion: that at least one-half of the year spent in the armed forces be spent in foreign duty, if possible, during the next few years, in one of the occupied countries...
...professional name-Mrs. Elizabeth N. Graham-in the Daily Racing Form. Now that her stable is stuck in the Chicago area by ODT's shipping ban, she is going to try her luck in the 64-day Washington Park meet opening next week. It is certain to add a lot of profitable sport to the $141,270's worth (gross winnings) she has already had this season...
...would also free 895 sleeping cars for the Army, to add to its present 4,055, which include 1,239 troop sleepers owned by Defense Plant Corp. It would leave traveling civilians with what was described as a "rock bottom" of 3,000 such cars. Another 1,200 troop sleepers were to be built by the end of the year, but none of these would be ready before September...
Even the effect of weather on the nation's victory gardens, whose tiny crops collectively add much to the U.S. food pile, may be serious. Many such gardens have been damaged by rain and late frost. Should the backyard farmers fail to replant and secure good crops, there will be a heavy additional drain on commercial food sources...
While matters simmered, U.A.W. Vice President Walter Reuther began discussing interpretations of the no-strike pledge with representatives of Detroit's 350,000 U.A.W. members. Reuther's interpretation: that the pledge applies only to plants doing war work. This stand seemed to add new strike threats to automakers' other reconversion bogies. But labor said no-it would mean fewer strikes. Reason: collective bargaining machinery, which has rusted under cover of the war emergency, will again be used to settle disputes, thus avoiding needless walkouts...