Word: exacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American industry, fattened with war profits . . . has deliberately set out to destroy labor unions, to provoke strikes and economic chaos, and hijack the American people through uncontrolled profits and inflations. ... Its clear aim is to exact unconditional surrender of the American people and the United States Government. . . . The steel industry now has the full and sole responsibility for the strike which must take place. . . ." . Had Big Steel really been merely stubborn in refusing to compromise for the President's proposal and thus avert a strike? One industrialist thought so. Big, bustling Henry Kaiser rushed to the White House with...
When questioned as to the exact nature of the infections, Dr. Bock said that "We call it the flu because we don't have anything better to call it." Most of the illnesses are caused by viruses, he said...
...more than 70 letters a month end up in TIME'S Letters Section. They are the few that best amplify or correct the news which has appeared in TIME, and TIME'S Letters Editor chooses them with care-especially those concerning highly controversial issues, which run in exact proportion of "for" and "against...
...Army & Navy have finally taken the wraps off two wartime improvisations which are proving valuable aids to the still not-too-exact science of aerology...
...weight has long been a fascinating subject to the Khan. Before the war, he used to drop in almost daily at London's Berry Bros, (spirits), weigh himself on their famed century-old scales, and jot down the figure, carefully noting the exact items of apparel included...