Word: anyway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...France's more delightful postwar fracases started last July, when gaunt, puritan Finance Minister René Pleven (a nonsmoker) refused to issue tobacco ration cards to women, implied that it was improper for them to smoke, anyway...
Nowhere did the expected "pockets of resistance" develop. The Japs quit as unanimously as they had fought. Did they all suddenly realize the hopelessness of the struggle? Or all bow to the will of the Emperor? Or all share a hope of their power's revival? Anyway, they quit...
...Federal Communications Commission has no direct power to censor radio. But its power to revoke a station's license (when it appears necessary "in the public interest") keeps the radio industry worried anyway...
Next day, the Seattle plant shut down entirely; the Renton plant closed everything but the final assembly line. Cheerfully, 21,200 of the 29,000 workers lined up outside the plants to be paid off (see cut). Said one, grinning: "I knew it wouldn't last much longer anyway...
...perfect friendship with A.F. of L.'s International Association of Machinists, with which Bill Jack had long boasted a closed-shop contract. The trouble had started when union bigwigs, who looked sourly on Jahco's stock-selling plan, warned associates against buying. Associates went right on buying anyway, rubbed it into wary union officials by assigning their voting rights to Bill Jack and Vice President Ralph Heintz as trustees. When the V-J layoffs started, the squabble broke out again, this time over veteran seniority provisions. Result: Jahco must appear before NLRB on charges of "coercing" its associates...