Word: bearing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...anywhere from one week to two and a half months) ; so must further drafts. Only heartening item in this list was the rapid increase in Regulars (up from 242,000 since last June). Putting Regular enlistments ahead of Guard mobilization and the draft made sense, because the Regulars must bear the burden of training the new Army...
...House last week set to work: 1) coverage will be retroactive to the date Britain declared war on Germany, Sept. 3, 1939; 2) owners of dwellings will pay compulsory insurance premiums equal to 10% of the assessed rental* value of the property; 3) business assets, plant and machinery will bear a compulsory premium of 1½% of their value; 4) churches and chapels will be insured free, the Treasury paying all premiums. In addition, the War Damage Bill provides that any Briton may voluntarily insure under the scheme one motorcar worth up to $2,000 and additional personal property worth...
...believe that the results of our poll bear out the conclusion that "Harvard feels British victory essential to national defense." Here are the facts: 37 per cent of the total number who voted checked the statement which read "Hitler must go even if we have to fight." 49.3 per cent checked, "British victory is essential to our national defense." Leaving out duplications we find that slightly over 60 per cent took at least the weaker of the two positions. If you take either of these stands, you necessarily accept the policy of all necessary...
...program further urged that "no single group should be called upon to take a disproportionate share of the responsibilities for, or any group alone bear the brunt of the defense program," and concluded that the "fight for democracy must go forward at home in order to be effective abroad...
Since the war in Europe broke out in the fall of 1939 the British-Argentine economic relationship has been strained. The British buy a considerable amount of their beef from the Argentine packing houses which bear the familiar names of Swift, Armour, and Wilson. The Argentine has bought in the past finished heavy goods from the British with their English pounds. Since the war, however, these pounds have been blocked in London by the British control of foreign exchange; they are not now transferable into American dollars as they were in the past. This situation has put the Argentines...