Word: due
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...told farmers that their troubles were due to the fact that the farmer had to buy in a tariff-protected market, sell in competition with "the peon workers of the Argentine. . . ." For this familiar complaint John Bracken, who is a farmer himself, had a brand-new farmer's remedy-he would replace such agricultural aids as guaranteed floor prices and special subsidy payments with a basic formula: let farm prices be fixed in advance of each crop year at levels high enough to guarantee the farmers "their proportionate share of the national income...
...due dates for completed ballots varied in the 48 states from five days before, to 27 days after, Nov. 7. Virginia required all ballots to be in by Nov. 2; Rhode Island would count soldier votes up to Dec. 4. Pennsylvania, which believed that it had the biggest number of applications (620,000) will not count them until Nov. 22. If the soldier vote should be the determining factor, the U.S. may have to wait days or even weeks after Nov. 7 to learn the election results...
Although the national registration will probably be lower than it was in 1940, the turnout left political experts baffled-and jittery. They had agreed that the campaign silence of the American people was due to apathy; now they knew that it was a mood of silence that was ominously unpredictable. Plainly, there might be enough of the fearsome, unpredictable "silent voters" in this election to throw off all the careful calculations pointing to a close election...
...production after V-E day. In the first year after Germany quits, and if Japan is still fighting, the rising scale of cutbacks for the U.S. will average 32% (maximum: 40%). For the West Coast, the average will be "something more" than 25%. The lower percentage is due to the hard fact that the bulk of the weapons still needed to fight Japan (i.e., B-29 and B-32 bombers) are being made in the West. Furthermore, use of West Coast facilities will ease the Army & Navy's critical transportation problem, speed up ship repairs. So far the West...
Amber married three others (in due succession), became a rich, widowed Countess. That was her high estate when she met King Charles II. "His dark lazy eyes stirred the embers of desire, at which [her husbands] had rudely raked but never once brought into flame." Charles made Amber a Duchess and Lady of the Bedchamber, had her painted "on a heap of black cushions, unashamedly naked...