Word: allowance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...local board thinks that the only thing needed is more & more soldiers. Some have no recognition of what a modern war involves. Many employers feel it unpatriotic to ask for the deferment of their technical men. Many of the technical men feel that they will be slackers if they allow their employers to ask for deferment. And still more, many employers and men have asked for deferment in a fainthearted way and when a 1-A classification appeared, failed to take advantage of the provision by the Selective Service system for an appeal...
Failure of a Courtship. "His Majesty's Government had hoped," the new communiqué intoned, "that the Governor General of Madagascar would allow the British command to take such steps as they considered necessary in order to deny to the Axis . . . facilities ... in the island." A report said the British, after their first attack, had attempted to woo French colonial administrators with honeyed words and attractive trade agreements. The British had also promised that pensions and salaries to all French officials would continue after the British took over. Renewed military operations were an admission that the courtship, tainted with...
...Take It With You" and knows what a good comedy it is. The play is one of Kaufman and Hart's best and has long been a favorite of the summer theatres throughout the country. Unfortunately it requires a more polished performance than a week's rehearsing will allow and so the usual production is not up to the real value of the play...
...~July 10 drive totaled some 18,098,811 lb.-a per capita average of 6.39 lb. As in many other States, county salvage committee reports were slow in coming in, but the results were there. Your article, I believe, did an injustice to Alabama, however unintentional. In fairness, allow me to suggest that you publish the enclosed fair statement of the facts...
They might risk a final smash at Alaska, at the northwestern U.S., at Australia, India or Soviet Asia. But they could no longer nurse any one or all of these plans with the freedom of aggressors; they now had to allow for Allied attacks everywhere in the Pacific...