Word: existent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Henry used the letterhead of a reputable firm which employed him, represented on it to the War Department that he had a company and plant equipped to turn out 4.2-in. mortar shells. This company, the Erie Basin Metal Products Inc., did not then actually exist. But soon after Pearl Harbor the War Department gave Dr. Garsson's nonmachined firm a whopping order for shells. Meantime Henry Garsson had found two men-Allen B. Gellman and Joseph Weiss of Chicago-who had factories and machines but no war contracts...
Milan's Archbishop, Cardinal Schuster, took a grim view of the sacrilegious thefts. Said he in a pastoral letter published in the press: "There exist individuals and organized groups of people who are trying to get consecrated hosts, which they profane and use for unmentionable purposes during their meetings." In another letter he wrote: "A sect which sustains the part of Judas the Traitor is at work, and is all the more repulsive because . . . boys are abused...
Freedom & Socialism. The complex machinery over which Morrison presides begins to creak-significantly-at the next step in the nationalization process. When socialist planning is translated into parliamentary program, it raises the key question: can socialism and democracy exist together...
...shall-have a much better chance to work out our problems if we and our Allies recognize the basic differences in our ideas, standards and methods instead of trying to make ourselves believe that they do not exist. ... I sometimes think our Soviet friends fear we would think them weak and soft if they agreed without a struggle on anything we wanted. . . .Constant struggle, however, is not always helpful...
...difficult to deny that there is a sluggishness about British actions, public and private, that does not exist elsewhere. . . . There is no active discontent, but also no sparkle or enthusiasm for anything but the various ways of consuming leisure. . . . The causes of [the phenomenon] deserve some inquiry...