Word: blows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Supreme Court this week gave a body blow to the American Medical Association and a hefty lift to the idea of group prepaid medical care, a scheme A.M.A. had fought tooth & nail...
Target: Locomotives. To hit at this soft spot, Allied fighter planes are now concentrating on German locomotives in western Europe. With armor-piercing slugs in their cannon they aim to blow up boilers (repairing a boiler takes at least half as long as constructing a new locomotive, thus pays dividends in lost man-hours as well as destruction). The Allied bag now averages 20 successful destructions each week. German concern is shown by reports that armor-plated locomotives are planned; anti-aircraft guns are already being mounted on flatcars behind the tenders...
...carriers. Five have been sunk. Six new ones have joined the fleet (including two new 23,000-tonners, Indefatigable and Implacable, whose commissioning was announced last week). Britain's carrier strength is therefore greater than it was before the war. The British increase is, in effect, a blow at Japan. It means that the British no longer have to rely on U.S. help in the pinches, and at least some of the increase may be felt in the Indian Ocean, where the enemy is Japan...
This week when Leon Henderson officially stepped down from head of the Office of Price Administration, U.S. business saw not just the departure of an able public servant but another blow at an economic philosophy which has already stubbed its toe on hard economic fact and hard, economic...
Hardest his Harvardians are the ERC boys. The February 15 active duty date would have left them a week with Willesley, whose return was to be on February 6. That was raised to the 15th, but the ERC date also got vaguely put off. This final blow is too much...