Word: anyway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What Goes On? Wrote the New York Times'? able, ironic Brooks Atkinson: "What is going on around here, anyway? . . . [It] is like walking out of a dark room into blinding sunlight. . . . It takes time to learn how to use freedom...
...Midwest. Last week husky Mr. Keeshin, now 45, stalked into a board of directors meeting. Said he bitterly: "I'm quitting. Why not liquidate the company? As long as the unions insist on jacking up wages and cutting down efficiency with featherbed rules, the company is done for anyway...
...city. Unless the U.S. and Britain delivered their share soon, he would henceforth supply only the Soviet sector. Heatedly his colleagues pointed out that they could contribute their shares only if the Russians speeded up the railroads under their control. Said the Russian: every effort was being made, and anyway, railroads were not his business, while food was. Said the Frenchman: France would start meat deliveries soon, but not to Berlin. The Russian sniffed. The American recalled that U.S. authorities had already delivered 9,000 tons of dressed beef to the Russians at the Bavarian frontier. The Russian sniffed again...
...such age with different eyes. Recently this girl's mother was telling her of a friend of 42 who had just had a serious operation, whereupon the girl remarked: "It doesn't particularly matter, mother, if she doesn't pull through, she's so old anyway...
Henry Agard Wallace spoke casually. Labor, he said, in an extemporaneous radio speech, should get half or more of the 30% pay increases it demands; if necessary, prices should be increased. This, the Secretary of Commerce theorized, would advance the U.S. cost of living by only 3 or 4%. Anyway, he was more afraid of deflation than inflation...