Word: blows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Judge Sullivan's ruling was a heavy and unexpected blow to the War Labor Board and the voluntary formula on which it operates. It was only a first-round decision. But, unless reversed, it meant that under the War Labor Disputes Act the President may seize mines, plants or facilities only when they are equipped for the "manufacture, mining or production" of war-necessary materials. By Judge Sullivan's decision, the law does not cover businesses engaged solely in "distribution." Said WLB Chairman William H. Davis...
...fire, had directed a large part of the aerial mapping of West Africa and the Normandy coast before invasion. He had won the Air Medal and the D.F.C. Only question less favored airmen could ask was: would he have done so well if he had been just plain Joe Blow...
Prospects. Yet Rundstedt's offensive had won Germany a respite in the west. Front correspondents estimated that Eisenhower could not launch a full-scale blow for another month at least. By then, spring thaws in the east would be slowing the Russians, if they were not already halted by overstrained supply lines. And the Nazis had not yet shown what sort of stand they could make in their inner eastern defenses...
...Germans were staggered. It was a cruel blow. At Gleiwitz was a synthetic fuel plant that employed 38,000. It had been moved to "safe" Silesia from the air-vulnerable Ruhr. Near by was a great new engine works, also built far from the Allied bomber fields. At Beuthen was the biggest zinc mine in Europe. Out of Katowice had poured automobiles, chemicals, machine tools. Out of the basin had gone much of the coal for the industries and railroads of the eastern Reich and Czechoslovakia...
...Francisco Chronicle's hard-hitting sport editor, Bill Leiser, landed a shrewd blow last week in defense of wartime pro sport. In his column, "As Bill Leiser Sees It," he wrote...