Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...company stood firm, declaring it could never make union membership or nonmembership a condition of employment. The union struck. Work on $450,000,000 worth of cruisers, destroyers, tankers, freighters ceased. Federal's schedule, which had been way ahead, dropped drearily back day after day. To avoid further delay the company offered the yard to the Government to run as it liked. The President, well aware of Federal's splendid production record, hesitated. Conferences got nowhere. And after 16 days of idleness in the East Coast's fourth largest private shipyard, Mr. Roosevelt told the Navy...
...CNAC planes have so far been shot down by the Japanese. To avoid such accidents, CNAC's American pilots and Chinese co-pilots fly mostly at night (bad weather preferred), blacked out, radios dead, very high, navigating by stars, by instruments, or by Oriental divining. They have carried over 2,000 passengers a year, over 1,000,000 Lb. of mail and cargo- ranging from new breech blocks for Chung-king's anti-aircraft guns to jars of American grape jelly for Madame Chiang Kaishek's table...
...like it used to be." / / Veteran Slinker Marlene Dietrich accepted a mother role. / / William Saroyan offered the film rights of The Time of Your Life free to any studio that would contribute "every penny of the proceeds" to national defense. / / Canyon-mouthed Martha Raye swerved her car to avoid another, ran off the road and chuted 150 feet down into a canyon, sprained an ankle...
...felt inferior, children who did not behave as the congregation thought they should, a wife who was jealous of her husband's contacts with his women parishioners. Other pastoral worries: getting the jitters in the pulpit, inability to face the congregation while preaching, how to avoid getting too closely involved with certain members of the parish...
Next Move? If Japan was still unready to undertake war with Russia by attacking Siberia, and wished to avoid the war with Britain and the U.S. that would follow an attack on Singapore or the Indies, her most likely next move would seem to be on Thailand. Under pressure, the Government of Premier Luang Pitul Songgram granted Japan a 10,000,000-baht ($3,600,000) loan, recognized Manchukuo as a token of friendship. (It was carefully explained that the recognition of Manchukuo had been chosen as a lesser evil than recognizing Puppet Wang Ching-wei at Nanking.) Japan continued...