Word: diversionism
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As a diversion from the serious purpose of the gathering, the visitors will inspect the United States Naval Academy and will review the Midshipmen on dress parade. Later in the afternoon they are scheduled to watch the Adams Cup Regatta in which the favored Harvard crew will be challenged by...
He is eager to argue with those who believe that civil consumption can be cut down by allowing prices to rise as they naturally would. He points out that in copper, steel and other basic materials, price increases would not draw out really significant new capacity; he notes that in...
The diversion of lumber shipments now made through the canal, it is estimated, would add 6,000 carloads a month to the rails' burden. New York City alone "imports" some 16,000,000 cases a year of fruits and vegetables from the West Coast which now will be dumped...
The individual commodity most affected by diversion of coastal and intercoastal shipping will be oil. Out of the U.S. fleet of 361 tankers, 50 will go to the shipping pool (25 at once, 25 later). This means the diversion of about 200,000 barrels a day (enough to fill 1...
The citizens and editors of London grew petulant last week over what seemed to them a gross blunder in British strategy: denuding Libya to undertake a hopeless campaign in Greece. The apparent threat to the Suez Canal had them scared. "This is no diversion," said the London Evening News. "Glossing...