Word: depending
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...impossible to depend on the loyalty of Admiral Darlan in the present situation, but he must be retained in a responsible position so long as the course of military events warrants it. Once the Allies have taken complete and absolute control of North Africa, his term of usefulness is at an end, and he must be discarded in favor of a government acceptable both to the Allies and to the people of France. The State Department disregarded the feelings of the peoples of the United Nations by maintaining relations with Vichy, but it has since become evident that...
Thus in a masterpiece of ambiguity did Congress recognize one all-important fact: what U.S. business can make on its war contracts (now some 3,000,000 in number) is coming to depend more & more on the decisions of Government price adjustment boards...
There is no Dreiser or Sinclair Lewis in the book; but Dreiser's effects depend on cumulative mass, and Lewis' great talents were not for creative but for reportorial writing. Unfortunately, there is no Scott Fitzgerald, either. The editors also went wrong on Thurber and Willa Gather, who deserved better selections. Southern writers are perhaps too generously treated. With these flaws, it remains a solid anthology. Among the selections...
That policy means that allowances of the pre-exam brew, already restricted to one a meal, may be lowered to two-cups a day. Any such move, however, would be temporary, and final action will depend on the working of the new coffee rationing plan which starts November...
...Chinese Government seems to be moving toward establishing a Ministry of Economic Warfare with authority over the whole production-consumption cycle. But the restoration of China's economic stability may well depend upon the resumption of peaceful, productive life. Perhaps the only real aid to China's economy can come through aid to China...