Word: directness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British industries will be free to purchase the raw materials needed to produce finished goods for their foreign customers. Example: iron & steel will probably be removed from the list of Lend-Lease shipments after Jan. 1, 1945, and put on the list of items British metal fabricators may purchase direct from U.S. mills. Thus, between V-E day and V-A day, British exporters will get a fair start in the competitive race with U.S. exporters for world markets...
...Chinese, who believe, with some reason, that onetime Oilman Hurley has a direct pipeline into the White House, generally approved of the choice. General Pat has been on warm personal terms with the Gissimo ever since his arrival. For Pat Hurley, there was added good news: even as Ambassador he could still wear the uniform he dearly loves...
Crossroads of the Atlantic. On the North Atlantic division the A.T.C. is doing two jobs: 1) maintaining and flying the transport route to Europe for high priority passengers, mail and freight; 2) guiding the fleets of bombers direct into the European theater...
...industry's success is due to its having avoided direct competition with the Eastern makers of fancy women's clothes. Instead it concentrated on bold, original designs in women's casual clothes (trademark: "Made in California...
When European engineers dismissed his invention as incredible, Tesla sailed for Manhattan and went to work in Edison's laboratory. The two did not hit it off; Tesla insisted that alternating current was the thing for power; Edison stuck stubbornly to direct...