Word: bearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seen that conversion of the automobile industry would throw thousands of people out of work in Detroit. She went to Messrs. Knudsen & Hillman and urged that OPM start training autoworkers as workers on airplane parts. Said she: "Mr. Knudsen looked at me like a great big benevolent bear as if to say, 'Now, Mrs. Roosevelt, don't let's get excited...
...knew off-hand how much taxes the nation could bear. Messrs. Doughton & George were prepared to reserve judgment until the March 15 egg had been safely laid. Probability: no tax bill until mid-April, at the earliest...
...persons who filed returns in calendar 1940, the 15,000,000 in 1941 will be some 22,100,000 in 1942 and still more if personal exemptions are again lowered. By Feb. 1 every one of the 36,000,000 motor vehicles in the U.S. must bear a windshield sticker signifying that the motorist has paid a $2.09 tax for the privilege of using a car. Then after five months the motorist must buy a $5 sticker, good for the 1942-43 fiscal year...
...German front or to undermine the resistance of our people or to weaken the authority of the regime or to sabotage the achievements on the home front, he shall die for it." To this, Propaganda Minister Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels had added his own shrill, suggestive echo: "We still bear the scars from the divisions of our old party politics. Carefully and jealously we must watch that they do not reopen again...
...puny soldier of 25, whose father had been a "strong man" and wrestled with a Russian bear and whose mother had pampered him. He fought in France, did bravely in Norway until he was blown into a cellar; then he developed night blindness. His ambition: to descend in a parachute in the center of Berlin and wreck buildings. If Britain should be invaded, he plans to kill his whole family, including his stepfather, "to prevent them from being raped...