Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was no great complaint in the House of Commons over the plan to divvy up the Italian fleet. What annoyed Britons of all stripes was the American disregard of other people's feelings. Besides President Roosevelt's airy aside, there was quite a bill of particulars...
...suits against the Du Pont Company, four of them involving I.C.I. The group is alleged to have elimi nated competition by splitting up world markets. Similar deals were supposedly made with Germany's I. G. Farben-industrie and Dynamit Aktiengesellschaft (D.A.G.), ending when World War II began. The complaint broke new ground only in naming I.C.I, as a defendant, in stead of a coconspirator, and by naming Lords McGowan and Melchett...
Lesson Learned. The nub of the British complaint was that the interest on sterling bonds was slashed more than that on dollar bonds; that one class of sterling bonds was wiped out, although Brazil will pay 12% of their face value...
From British women in war factories last summer came a swelling chorus of complaint: a lack of good corsets caused undue fatigue, spoiled dispositions, slackened morale, hindered production. The Government investigated, found corsets were only an item in a grave undercover situation...
...London working woman had no complaint: "I still got the corset I bought for the Coronation but I only wear it Sundays. This utility stuff don't bother me, dearie...