Word: afoot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...speed in building, the Navy today has work afoot in ten of its own yards, more than 125 yards of private contractors. Before its yard expansion is finished, it will have laid out $800,000,000 for plant and equipment. From Tacoma, Wash, to Bath, Me., its working crews are on the go in three shifts 24 hours a day, 48 hours a week. The number of men employed has increased from 167,274 to 375,000, by next summer will reach...
...radiophoned copy for his thriving Australian Women's Weekly (a lively sort of Australian Ladies' Home Journal), the biggest magazine in Australia (circulation over 450,000). At the same time David Yaffa also sold the TIME copy to the New Zealand Observer, had hot deals afoot with several papers in the Dutch East Indies...
...right to drink when they passed the 18th Amendment. If now the Freedom of the Seas is reasserted it will be an event as striking as Repeal-the end of America's second Noble Experiment in one generation. Last week the effort to end it was already afoot: ^ Secretary Knox denounced the Neutrality Act. "I am a firm believer, like the President, in the traditional policy of the freedom of the seas. I have been yelling for repeal of the Neutrality Act ever since it became a law. . . . I have always regarded that Act as a terrible blunder...
...Sentenced (in absentia) to death in France for instigating the assassination of King Alexander in Marseille in 1934, Dr. Pavelitch will probably be pardoned. Last week, there was already a movement afoot to free three accomplices, now serving prison terms...
...much trouble already that he will let the appointment go through. If & when Eicher gets up from the SEC chair, Ben Cohen will sit right down. Cohen will be too busy braintrusting and planning the defense program to run the SEC routine, so a plan is afoot to create a new post of vice chairman and give it to Republican Commissioner Sumner T. Pike...