Word: admittedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...land-based aircraft, Japan may have 5,000 or more first-line planes, and a factory output of as much as 1,500 planes a month - many of which, the Japs admit, are defective when delivered. But only about half the 1,500 are combat types, and U.S. air fleets have destroyed enemy aircraft recently at a rate of better than 750 a month. Japan must hoard air power for defense of its heartland...
First Objection. The Bretton Woods proposals, they admit, might work in a stable, orderly world. But the postwar world will be neither stable nor orderly. Some countries will be heavily in debt, while others enjoy vast spendable resources. What they term the "delicate" Keynes-White mechanism is not designed to bridge the gap between these two extremes. As an alternative, the bankers advance the "key country approach." Most of the world's trade, they argue, is carried on in pounds and dollars. Therefore, the dollar-pound rate should first be stabilized, providing a nucleus to which other currencies could...
That was what Boston medical men thought about women medical students in 1850. The faculty of Harvard decided nevertheless to admit a woman, but in the face of the doctors' resolutions she withdrew her application...
...squeeze the last penny of profit out of wartime cotton prices actually means nothing less than socialization of the cotton growers. For the Government may well become the sole buyer of their crops, the arbiter of price, and the dictator of production. Even the hardest-boiled cotton grabber would admit that under this act and its accompanying policy, free markets and free trading have gone a-glimmering-for as long as the policy lasts...
...used so far this year, but not necessarily abandoned by Lamar, is the famous "double shift." Constructed so as to pull opposing linemen offside, although no one would every admit that, it worked to the turn of just 17 offside penalties in the 1942 Penn game. The formation starts with a single wing to the right, but everyone starts moving of a sudden, with the fullback spinning to confuse matters, and pretty soon it is a left formation--with at least three of the opponents offside by them...