Word: averting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...workers this summer, mainly for B-52 production. North American is keeping up its fast pace on F-86 Sabre jets; Lockheed expects that "production will continue at its present high level for some time." The planemakers even hope that a revision may stabilize plane building and avert drastic cuts a few years hence...
Anarchist to Anarchist. By 1927, slipping sales made Ford realize that his model T was out of fashion, and he shifted to the snappier, more powerful model A in time to avert disaster. But he could still find time to interest himself in others' troubles. Ford, who had been called an anarchist by the Chicago Tribune in 1916, spoke out against a death sentence for the Anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti. Two days before the execution in Boston, Vanzetti wrote Ford: "I have always claimed my intire innocence and I will die affirming it. We have an extraordinary mass...
Although the Pentagon has bungled once, it can avert further misunderstanding by making clear why the soldiers are questionable cases. A full report on each soldier will wipe out the harmful speculation, and clear the innocent of this insult of their integrity. Especially in the case of these prisoners, facts, not guesswork, should be the criteria for accusation...
...campaigning is rough. Johannesburg's Afrikaans Nationalist newspaper Die Transvaler published a cartoon of a panga knife labeled "Mau Mau" piercing a black cloud and hanging over a white family, with a caption: "Vote Nationalist to avert this." Brigadier C. I. Rademeyer, head of South Africa's Criminal Investigation Department, quietly made it known that up to ten plainclothesmen were attending all political rallies, mixing with the crowds. Since the cops were assumed to be progovernment, United Party members were alarmed. Asked the Rand Daily Mail: "Are they spies?" Nationalist hoodlums tried to break up United Party rallies...
...racking pressure of ten years of rising prices. Despite all the government's promises, food costs were 27% more than a year ago; within the week, the price of rice had nearly doubled because the neighboring state of Rio Grande do Sul had suddenly embargoed shipments to avert a shortage of its own. Electric-power rationing caused by drought had shortened factory hours and thus cut take-home...