Word: favoredly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...YORK, October 9--Gen. George C. Kenney, No. 2 man in the U. S. Army Air Forces, said today the eventual abolition of all national armies, navies and air corps in favor of an international force was the answer to world peace...
...long period of careful preparation, electoral lists were once more announced. Result: dithyrambic cries of foul play from aging (73) National Peasant Party Leader Juliu Maniu and National Liberal Party Leader Constantin Bratianu. They claimed that the lists had been drawn up in such a way as to favor the Soviet-supported candidates. While tension grew between the government and these two big opposition parties, the government itself threatened to split on the election issue...
Labor grew restive. Always keen to get into Monterrey, the Mexican Confederation of Labor (CTM) struck a key glass factory last June, forced the Government to seize it and satisfy worker demands. The Government still runs the plant, reputedly at a big loss. Some regiomontanos favor starting another plant like it and running the Government out of business. Others see changing times, the first threat of expropriation...
Soon after, ailing Standard Gas went into reorganization, and V.E., who had been chairman of the board, stepped out in favor of Leo Crowley. The great days of financial legerdemain, when a man could run a few electric light bulbs into a utility empire, were gone for good. V.E. looked around for fresh territory. In the sprawling Cord Corp., which then included AVCO as a subsidiary, he found...
...Lightning never strikes twice in the same place (the odds are definitely in favor of its doing...