Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...very timidity of Tom Connally's Resolution threatened to bring about the battle he had hoped to avoid. A group of Senators, including Ball and Hatch of the B2H2 Resolution, served notice that unless the full Foreign Relations Committee make the Resolution more definite at once, they will take their fight for "strengthening and clarifying" amendments to the Senate floor...
...short on coal-500,000 tons a week short. Fuel Coordinator Harold Ickes advised the public: "Avoid panic . . . accept what coal is available . . . exercise the utmost conservation...
John L. Lewis stared blandly back. The walkouts were "unauthorized." He wired his Alabama and Indiana U.M.W. locals: "We all want to avoid any damage to the war effort. ... I hope each mine worker will again sacrifice his personal interests and subordinate his righteously outraged feelings...
...mother of a three-year-old girl, charged that Flynn was the baby's father, sued him for $1,750-a-month support, $17,000 for hospital and legal expenses. The actor promised to "fight . . . to the bitter end before I'll make any payoff to avoid unpleasant publicity...
Then the depression dumped Marchant and Fridén into deep red ink, finally dumped Fridén right out. He went back to shoestring calculating, determined to invent a competing machine and at the same time avoid any patent fights. In one year flat he had it: with the $27,000 the market crash had left him, plus $25,000 from four California backers, he started the Fridén Calculating Machine...