Word: chokes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...represents as tangled a post-war problem as any that Army and Navy are likely to inherit. For the interests of speed, most of these properties have been acquired either by outright condemnation or with very sketchy discussions of real values. Hence suits for fair return are apt to choke the courts for years. One frantic real-estater's estimate last week: a post-war lawyer's field day of 30 years or more...
...Batcheller as president of Allegheny-Ludlum Steel Corp. is head of a company that is relatively small in the steel industry but one of the biggest companies in the realm of alloy steel. As an expert in alloy steelmaking he is invaluable, for in the steel bottleneck the real choke is in alloy steels (for armor plate and many a vital part in war machines). The Government now wishes that it had taken his advice two years ago, when he foresaw the raw-material shortages now plaguing the U.S. Then he urged stocking up on nickel, chrome and tungsten, suggested...
Elfish, slow-smoldering Stephen Vincent Benét wrote the program's "letters to Hitler" for six representative Americans: a farmer (Raymond Massey-"We'll choke you with wheat and corn, Adolf, we'll drown you in York State milk"), a mother (Helen Hayes-"I do not say it is just or right to hate. I say we hate you for having caused this hate"), a businessman (Melvyn Douglas-"You can't do business with a man who doesn't know the meaning of a contract"), a laborer (James Cagney-"We're sending...
...wellsprings that supply the German army in Russia were targets; but the raids were part & parcel of the Battle of the Atlantic. Since March, when U-boat marauding in the western Atlantic grew intense, the R.A.F had blasted a pattern of destruction through German submarine-building cities, seeking to choke off U-boats at their source. Among them were Augsburg and Cologne (diesel engines), Essen (plates and torpedo tubes), Emden and Bremen (assembly yards), Warnemünde (U-boat training base), Wilhelmshaven and St. Nazaire, France (operational bases...
...heaven's sake, leave India alone. Let us breathe the air of freedom. It may choke us, suffocate us as it did the slaves under emancipation, but I want the present sham...