Word: affectedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Price Control Act, Economic Czar James F. Byrnes found enough power to freeze salaries: henceforth employers will have to ask WLB or the Treasury for permission to give raises-and will have to prove that the increases will not affect the prices of their goods. There are a few exceptions: 1) raises accompanying bona fide promotions; 2) Merit increases; 3) regular raises based on term of service; 4) extra pay under incentive plans to increase production. But no employer can now lift the salaries of his stenographers from $20 to $40 a week just to keep them from moving...
Archer Vandegrift was still busy this week, and the eyes of much of the world focused on his business. To most outsiders, his Solomon Islands battle has grown from an interesting little adventure in offense into a clash which may vitally affect the whole war. For the Japanese are now committed to trying to retake what he took from them. The U.S. is equally committed to holding on, and eventually taking more...
...provide its own protection against enemy fighters-in effect, making the bomber itself a long-range fighter-enormously increases the range and power of offensive air fleets and widens the European area in which Allied armies may operate from Britain with air support. These are changes which may well affect the timing, location and success of the second front...
...weeks before election the loss or retention of a jungled island 5,000 miles away may thus materially affect the character of the next Congress and the government of many a State. These are the weeks when political candidates are at the mercy of chance. A political accident now could change a whole career, and history. Last week the political pot began to boil-and in 1942 it is no ordinary kettle...
...mostly harmless). Upshot: the U.S. Food & Drug Administration now requires all sulfa-powders to be heat-sterilized and carefully packaged. At least one person has already died of tetanus when unsterile sulfapyradine was used following a pelvic operation. Tetanus germs are among the group which sulfa-drugs do not affect...