Word: barely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...desk that roll of the dead. . . ." In another editorial the News quoted a letter, addressed to President Roosevelt, from an indignant Texas grandmother, Mrs. J. M. Isbelle: "My 22-year-old grandson . . . has been in camp 18 months or more, and never a gun yet. Shall they fight with bare fists...
...news of the Jack & Heintz profiteering case (TIME, April 6) and Assistant Attorney General Arnold's attack on Standard Oil; 2) belated recognition by many an editor that the 40-hour week is not compulsory, that the real issue was overtime pay above 40 hours. Last week a bare 18% of U.S. editors still held out for a change in the 40-hour week...
After a proper tea, the cruisers again sortied out of the smoke. Ahead of one cruiser loomed the battleship, a bare 6,000 yards away. Its forward turrets were a solid, orange wall of flame. The British gunners knew that their shells could do no more than annoy the battleship. But they fired away. A British destroyer careened out of the smokescreen. The captain was certain that he holed the battleship with a torpedo. Another destroyer captain believed that he got a second hit. The battle ship did not sink, but it had had enough. At dusk, after five hours...
...plain, washed-khaki jacket. The jacket was open at the neck. It was bare of stars (he could have worn four). It matched his plain, khaki trousers. The only gold was on his garrison cap. But the trousers were rigorously pressed. A bamboo swagger stick swung in his right hand. The jacket, trousers, cap and stick, for that place and that day, were the perfect dress. They were in the MacArthur tradition. Among the dressier uniforms of the generals around him, they made him as conspicuous as had the Russian boots, the resplendent tunics, the stars and the medals which...
Behind this inventory boom is a store-manager panic, a store-buyer picnic. Fearing bare shelves when their stores were customer-packed, storekeepers last summer told their buyers to start buying more and buy it faster. They did. First they bought "hard" lines-radios, refrigerators, kitchen stoves, rubber goods, bicycles, typewriters, etc. Then they rushed after "soft" lines-woolen, cotton and rayon goods, stockings, dresses, men's suits, shoes, hats. To make sure they got enough, buyers quit the long-standing practice of buying only 60-90 days ahead, started buying for six to eight months. Last week many...