Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...national wage policy; payment of wage increases in defense bonds, to be held in trust (to avoid inflation...
License officials said it was Cupid's soldier clothes. As in 1917, young men hurriedly mumbled their marriage vows before Selective Service caught them-not to avoid serving in the Army, but to sandwich in a brief honeymoon before they went off alone to camp. On the day after graduation day at West Point, chaplains were busy from 9:30 a.m. until dusk, married 26 second lieutenants with the ink barely dry on their commissions...
Perhaps I shall not be able to avoid an alliance with Russia. I shall keep that as a trump card. Perhaps it will be the decisive gamble of my life. . . . But it will never stop me from firmly retracing my steps and attacking Russia when my aims in the West have been achieved. . . . We must win the victory of German race-consciousness over the masses eternally fated to serve and obey. We alone can conquer the great continental space, and it will be done by us alone, not through a pact with Moscow. We shall take this struggle upon...
...number one headache to national defense is the failure of OPM's chiefs to avoid the serious production shortage of vital: 1. Rubber
...State Department-slapping the Axis alone. But in an accompanying statement, he showed an inclination to be more lenient with the Governments (and citizens) of Finland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the U.S.S.R. than with Italy, Germany and the countries they have occupied. These nations, he indicated, might avoid freezing control through general licenses permitting financial transactions "upon the receipt of adequate assurances . . . that the general licenses will not be employed ... to evade the (anti-Axis) purposes of this order...