Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...show that resulted in the capture of almost 600 Italians. In the rear areas he was a holy terror. He liked to wear officers' uniforms, or bits of uniforms from several different armies. He consistently roamed away from his guard duty post, would walk a mile to avoid a salute...
Federal Judge T. Alan Goldsborough, who is getting to be an old hand at dealing with John L. Lewis, tried hard last week to avoid having to slap him down again. The "national tragedy" of another coal strike, said Judge Goldsborough, would rouse the country and Congress against Lewis, perhaps against both labor & management. Said he: "The people are not going to stand for having society disintegrated by movements of this kind." He invited John L.'s lawyers and those of the Southern Coal Producers Association, with whom Lewis has stubbornly refused to negotiate, to sit down...
...Russia's Grand Duchess Olga, youngest sister of the late Czar Nicholas, was Canada-bound after 27 years of farming in Denmark. The Russians had begun to question her status, so Olga & family left Denmark to avoid embarrassing the government, to farm in Canada...
...single-procurement" system (in which one branch of the service will do all the buying for all three branches in certain specified items), gives the address and telephone number of every procurement office in the country. No mere blueprint, it tells manufacturers what they should do-now-to avoid getting caught with their overalls down. With a reminder of items that were short in World War II (paper, asbestos, industrial diamonds, etc.), it lists what would be needed first in another war: bearings, generators, rubber-working machinery...
Plowless Folly. Nor does Dr. Kellogg think much of "plowless farming," a fad promoted by Edward Faulkner's Plowman's Folly. Sometimes, Kellogg says, it is a good idea to avoid plowing, so as to leave a layer of litter on the surface, but the plowless method works only in special cases. "Some farmers and gardeners," says he, "in the eastern part of the U.S.-especially city gardeners-took the doctrine literally and planted corn in fields of Bermuda grass-corn that got a few inches high, turned yellow, and finally perished...