Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time for cajolery and promises was past. The Nazi recruiting program turned to tried & true Nazi methods: Dutch labor conscripts, said the Free Dutch Government in London last week, are being forced into German uniforms to avoid "tragic consequences" for their families at home...
...Italy's food grew scarce, down went Italian morale. Servants whose sons were frozen to death in the Greek campaign still worked in swank resorts, saw profiteering contractors avoid Government taxes by giving weekend trinkets to pinchable blondes. Old families were being ruined by gambling debts. Married couples rowed over trifles. The black market's tentacles reached into the top of the Fascist hierarchy, despite fulminations against racketeers and "slackers" by Publisher Roberto Farinacci. Thousands of Romans, terrified by accounts of R.A.F. bombings in Naples, took their bambini into Vatican City, where they crowded together...
...first essential to the resumption of private investment after this war is to avoid uncontrolled inflation now. Morgenthau has taken the first big step. Alvin H. Hansen, Professor of Political Economy at Littauer Center, prophesies that "we may be compelled to spend one-half our national income on the war effort." This is a post-war necessity that must be taken care of while the war is still being fought...
...experimental food restrictions in the undergraduate Dining Halls, inaugurated on February 9, saved more than was necessary to avoid losses, and Aldrich Durant, Business Manager, yesterday...
...this kind of warfare, submarines were the only craft that could hope to avoid the Caribbean's watchful air patrols. Where they were based, no one but the enemy yet knew. French bases were suspiciously near: Dakar, 3,150 miles; German-occupied Brest, 4,300 miles from the Caribbean. Small, unguarded islands off Central America might have been fitted out as refueling bases...