Word: defaults
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more destroyers, a deal to turn over to England a large proportion of the U. S. merchant marine, an assembly plant to turn out standardized ships for Britain in wholesale quantities, the repeal of the Neutrality Act, the repeal of the Johnson Act (prohibiting loans to govern ments in default on World War I debts). In official circles, outright repeal of the Johnson Act or a scheme for circumventing it was freely prophesied. The raid which gutted Coventry, one centre of the British aircraft industry, started speculation as to whether the President would change his "rule-of-thumb" by which...
...then we have failed in our responsibility. We can join in the preparednss effort to translate our objectives--as against those we oppose--into action. But if we wash our hands of the preparedness movement, then we can only expect that leadership will go--by our own default--to those we most despise...
They were drastic. It was admitted that the city's docks, which previously carried one-third of Britain's overseas trade, were mangled beyond use. It was further apparent that railroads, which in default of London's docks would have to carry goods to & from other ports, were occasionally badly snarled. Disease and evacuation would not help this communication problem. Many of London's 14,000 factories, which before the war accounted for one-fifth of Britain's total output and employed one-quarter of her 7,500,000 workers, were knocked out. Within...
...juice), once ran 1,000 miles in one of C. C. Pyle's famed "bunion Derbies." But last week, after six hours, the hot pavement had so blistered his feet that he had to quit with only six more miles to go. Duke, still going strong, won by default...
...well as the Merrymen and the Deacons, but Eliot stroke Ev Walkley jumped the field at the start and, rowing the main part of the race at a 32, was not pushed. The Lowell House Bellboys, who had failed to qualify but entered after winning a consolation race by default, finished half a length behind the second place Deacons, while Adams and Leverett were well back in the ruck...