Word: closers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wants an air-travel ticket must stand in line behind Government personnel, the Army, Navy and Marines, businessmen traveling on war business. Other restrictions are still to come. The peripatetic U.S. citizen who, like Chaucer's spring pilgrims, loves to go places, henceforth will have to stay much closer to home...
...remnants of his Afrika Korps out of a tight spot last week. After waiting desperately for reinforcements to support his stand at Agedábia, Rommel, under cover of a sand storm, beat a successful 100-mile retreat to el-Aghéila, southwest of Agedábia-closer to his own base and source of reinforcements. The storm was so bad that British mobile units could not keep up with him. Once again Rommel had shown smart generalship in coping with a superior enemy...
This morning organized labor appears closer to the unity that it has long needed for even more effectiveness than at any time since John L. Lewis started building up the C.I.O. on the industrial organization theory of unionization. The craftsmen of the A.F. of L., considering themselves as the skilled aristocrats of labor, have never been able to stomach the idea that the vertical union was here to stay. On their refusal to concede the necessity of industrial organization in order to attain bargaining power in large, mass production factories, has rested the blame for the failure of the half...
...Acting President Ramon S. Castillo, on lines of thinking geared to those of Senator Burton Wheeler before Pearl Harbor, Argentina acted with Delphic ambiguity last week, secretly instructed its delegates to act "in accordance with the principles which Argentina has always upheld in its international policies." But Argentina moved closer toward collaboration by "recalling" her Ambassador from Berlin, and announced that Germany had recalled Ambassador Baron Edmund von Thermann,* whose persona has long been non grata with Argentina's pro-Ally Chamber of Deputies...
...medical profession ... [is] closer to scraping the bottom of the bucket . . . than any other occupation, trade or profession." So warned Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association...