Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fruit of Vice President Henry Wallace's visit last May. Within a measurable period of time, U.S. supplies-via either the Burma Road or the Pacific -will be flowing into China. Basic principles, commitments of one Government to the other, must be worked out now to avoid possible future misunderstandings...
...Universal's owners paid $22,000,000 for the company in 1931, have since used it to pool research and patents. Reason for giving it away (according to well-informed oil men) : the U.S. Department of Justice has been investigating Universal as a possible trust, and to avoid a protracted struggle with the Government, Universal preferred to seek sanctuary...
...silver-purchase legislation; repeal the Gold Reserve Act amendments allowing the Treasury to trade in gold at other than the official rate of $35 per ounce; free the dollar of all exchange controls. Other items: the U.S. must also incidentally balance the federal budget, and, of course, must avoid both a postwar boom or a depression...
Employers anticipating the necessity of laying off men, because of reductions in war production, should have such records as those of seniority available at all times, in order to avoid future delays and embarrassment, the committee has also advised...
This week Lieut. General Alexander M. Patch was still driving northward from the Riviera toward a junction with the northern armies of General Eisenhower. So badly disorganized was the opposition that much of the time it did not know where its own units were. To avoid helping the enemy, Allied commanders let their communiques lag days behind developments in the field...