Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President said he hoped that enough labor could be found to avoid increasing individual working hours. But many an employer was less optimistic. In the machine-tool industry, more than 95% of employes have been working overtime: an average of 12½ hours a week. Since no employer would pay out that much overtime if he could help it, this was a sure sign that the long-expected labor bottleneck was now a potent fact. Immediately after the President's statement, Knudsen-Hillman asked industry workmen to substitute bonuses for vacations in defense plants this summer. Draft headquarters disclosed...
Surrendering the city to avoid bombing, the small Greek garrison and most of the population moved inland to the hills to think things over. While the Italians were still trying to coax them out with ultimatums, the German occupation force of three arrived by motor launch, bowed politely out when they found the small end of the Axis in possession. Next day the Greeks capitulated finally and the Italians made sure of their prize with three infantry battalions...
James R. Brewster, for the preparation of an experimental text to be tested in courses in Audio-Visual Aids at Harvard and Boston University, such text to be provided with a sufficient number of charts, drawings and illustrations to avoid the usual misunderstandings...
...would pay students to make their own investigations on economic problems," the economist remarked. "They should be able to form their own opinions by reading intelligent and competent authors. They should avoid books by men who are Fascists made over from Communists and have come to spread their poisonous material here, and columnists like Dorothy Thompson and Walter Winchell should never be read with serious thought...
...that Conant has a faith in the judgment of ordinary Americans, while FDR puts his trust in trick devices, trial balloons, evasive phrases, and clever propaganda. The jockeying power of the Administration has been simply terrific. The repeal of the Arms Embargo was pushed through as a measure to avoid war, aided by a "cash and carry" rider. Various other departures from our neutrality were countenanced by those who believed in aid to England short of war, as insurance and defense for this country. At this point Roosevelt advanced the plausible theory that Hitler would choose his own moment...