Word: alterations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same time the only organization that can possibly turn in a satisfactory performance is slowly disintegrating. Only a recognition of the profit motive, such as perhaps a $2 rise in the scrap ceiling and more freedom to manipulate different classifications at will under the ceiling can possibly alter this unfavorable trend. The new advertising campaign to the general public to contribute scrap will likely serve only as a temporary fillip...
When Homer Stillé Cummings, 72, onetime U.S. Attorney General (1933-39), married Julia Alter, onetime secretary to the late World War I Correspondent Floyd Gibbons at Cockeysville, Md. (and his fourth wife) he remarked: "She is not a career girl...
...high morale of Colonel Rivenshstein's group unfortunately does not alter the fact, attested by Moscow communiques and dispatches, that the German air force has had decisive numerical superiority on the southern front. A local exception to this rule was the Voronezh sector...
...Threat. The core of the Congress resolution demanded that Britain withdraw politically from India, and threatened to use all the possible nonviolence of the people to compel Britain to withdraw. The resolution did not alter Gandhi's position that he does not wish to interfere with United Nations military forces in India (TIME, July 13). But Jawaharlal Nehru explained that nonviolence envisaged more than industrial strikes-it would be a general strike, peaceful rebellion. Nehru's thesis was simple: only Indians could organize India for war, because anybody could do anything better than the Government of India today...
These actions did credit to The Auk's aggressive spirit, but they did not alter the basic situation: Rommel was defending his front with infantry and artillery; the bulk of his armored forces were withdrawn from action for rest and repair...