Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Labor Board came right out and said this week that John L. Lewis' defiance of the Government "gives aid and comfort to our enemies." The law has a word for giving aid & comfort to the enemy in time of war. The word is treason. If the Government meant what it said, its next step would be to place John L. Lewis under arrest...
...this the Board came out with its accusation of giving aid & comfort to the enemy: "The issue now confronting the nation in this dispute is whether Mr. Lewis is above and beyond the laws which apply to all other citizens. . . . Mr. Lewis is defying the lawfully established procedures of the Government of the United States. This is not only a defiance of our laws, but it is also the only thing that stands in the way of the working out of a new [mine] contract by orderly, peaceful procedure...
After Captain Eddie Rickenbacker's saga of planewreck in the South Pacific had publicized Scripture as a comfort for castaways, the Bible Society offered to furnish them to all rafts and lifeboats, complete with waterproof covers. War Shipping Administration, Army and Navy gladly accepted. By last week 21,000 New Testaments had been installed. Ten thousand more were awaiting assignment. Cost (from society's funds...
Qualified Freedom. So far as airmen are concerned, only one thing can thwart such dreams. It is not the problem of economy of operation, which has been handsomely met already. It is not freight or passenger capacity or comfort. The barrier, if there is one, is in the mind and heart of the world...
...more of the smaller distilleries, and Deputy Price Administrator J. Kenneth Galbraith estimated that the big fry control 80% of all the bulk whiskey in the U.S. Topers had one safe bet: for the duration liquor will be both scarce and expensive. But they had one nip of comfort-the sober outlook for drinkers makes the outlook for Old Man Prohibition bleak...