Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Conflict. But at week's end there was some doubt that Henry Wallace would make the grade at all. He seemed certain to be shorn of the powers of Federal Loan Administrator. And the Commerce Committee, by a 14-to-5 vote, had also adopted an unfavorable report on his nomination for Commerce Secretary. There was a bare chance he might win confirmation in the full Senate, but his foes stoutly believed they had him licked...
...emerged: as U.S. forces increasingly assumed the burden of the fighting on the Western Front and committed themselves more extensively in the Pacific campaign, their losses drew closer to those of the British Commonwealth, which now total more than 1,000,000 in five and a quarter years of conflict (including more than 600,000 from the United Kingdom). Empire casualties in World War I were...
...inclusive has lost at least one member, while the class of 1941 leads with 25 deaths. The oldest class represented in the tabulation is that of 1905; and the class of 1917, which lost most heavily in the last world war, is represented by two deaths in the present conflict...
Order In Labor. What labor must learn is that it, too, as a private government, must eventually be regulated. But first Ruml foresees a "period of serious conflict" to which the present turmoil over the union shop is only the prelude. Philosopher Ruml, admitting that the labor union has a proper and necessary function, approves the principle of the union shop: "It seems inescapable that those who benefit [by union bargaining] may fairly be required to share the burden...
Still there was no pause in the Greek civil war. The truce talks continued. So did the shooting. Now Athenians in their cellars caught another sound in the cacophony of conflict: the whoosh of rockets from British strafing planes. In the barricaded streets and around the ruins on the storied hills the tide of fighting ebbed & flowed. British Lieut. General Ronald M. Scobie warned ELAS that he would attack "with all the arms at my disposal," did so next day. Sherman tanks, spitting shells, dispersed ELAS troops in Mount Lycabettus. Beaufighters scattered ELAS concentrations north of the capital...