Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...adopt conspicuous markings in order to resemble unpalatable or poisonous varieties). Studies of 200 kinds of insects eaten by U.S. birds show that none of the palatable varieties is conspicuously marked. Among California salamanders, those eaten by snakes are concealingly colored and hide by day, and those which snakes avoid as nauseous are loudly marked and go about in daylight...
...problems continued to pile up on the President's desk like a range of mountains. For months the President had delayed and stalled, trying to avoid asking Congress to extend indefinitely the draftees' one-year term of service. When time began to close in on him, he still avoided direct personal leadership. Unwilling to buck the line himself, he sent in General George Marshall, Army Chief of Staff, to carry the ball and get the lumps. Good Soldier Marshall pounded down the field, through center, off-tackle, around the ends. The watching President couldn't believe...
Last week CBS voluntarily gave up broadcasting to the U.S. from Rome in order to avoid a censorship that made newscasting virtually impossible. A couple of days after CBS vacated the Rome air, NBC was booted by Il Duce's Ministry for Popular Culture. Not at all reluctant was either network to get out of Rome. All material from Italy has to be O.K.d by Berlin, then given another once-over by the Italians. By the time everybody has finished scrutinizing it, the news is usually completely cold...
...which remained carefully anonymous) talked over a plan for a $1,000,000,000 pool* to purchase new equipment with the help of RFC. This would ease the financial burden on railroads in receivership or short of cash, of which there are still many. For all roads it would avoid the necessity of selling any more equipment trust certificates in a market near the saturation point after whopping sales of $52,000,000 in June. It might even speed car production by bulking and standardizing orders and by multiplying pressure to make priorities effective. This plan did not come officially...
...Gave a high rating-A-2-to materials orders by manufacturers and repairers of canning machinery (at OPACS' request, to avoid any loss of the 1941 food crop...