Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Britain's Problems. Economically, Britain is a factory. Under war controls its efficiency has improved enormously. Britain's problem is to slip into peace without sacrificing this wartime efficiency. Only so, if at all, can returning veterans avoid the dole; only so can at least some of $2,600 million of war-built, publicly owned factories be put into peacetime production; only so can the Beveridge plan become much more than dream security...
...needed for the tunneling. Owners gave consent for the tunnel's right-of-way. Hard-boiled Harold Ickes, once he had the money, didn't wait "for legal unravelings: he condemned a right-of-way, promised to argue about damage claims later. To avoid a speculator's field holiday, he signed an order suspending further land sales in the area. Then last week Ickes prepared to call for bids for the tunnels...
...bridge, Executive Officer Roosevelt saw a gunner whose pants were rolled up, told him to get them down to avoid flash burns from enemy fire. The gunner had a bead on a bomber and could not comply; so Roosevelt unrolled one pants leg for him. At that moment a bomb fragment removed the gunner's other leg; Roosevelt suffered a slight hand wound. Big Pancho gave the gunner morphine, applied a tourniquet, lugged him below to sick bay. Says Reynolds: His crew worship the guy. They say he's terrific in combat...
With a Grin. Britain probably expects less of concrete achievement from the Moscow conference than either of her fellow nations, but is more determined than either to avoid anything like a rupture or failure. The national attitude was shrewdly summed up by the New Statesman and Nation's "Sagittarius" (Olga Katzin), who in a dignified parody of Lord Tennyson saluted the Moscow conference with a fatalistic grin...
Next the annual convention of the Knights of Columbus demanded that Catholic Italian-Americans be put in charge of occupied Italian territory: ". . . Care should be taken to avoid entrusting administrative functions to anyone who is professedly or generally known to be opposed to the general views of the Italian people on religion. . . ." In short, none but Catholics should administer occupied Italian territory...