Word: implementation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the Senate session, Michigan's Arthur H. Vandenberg, chief Republican spokesman on foreign affairs, issued a statement: "It reaffirms basic principles of justice to which we are deeply attached, and it undertakes for the first time to implement these principles by direct action...
...available for civilian experiments this year. Against weeds, the No. 1 enemy, which cost farmers as much ($3,000,000,000) as all other pests combined, the prospects are even brighter. Some promising weapons: ¶ A flamethrower. Used mainly on cotton, sugar cane and corn plantations, this tractor-drawn implement spurts a 2,200° flame along the ground between rows, burns off weeds without harming the stouter stalks of crop plants, costs only one-tenth as much as hoeing. ¶ Calcium cyanamide. This chemical, long used as fertilizer, has recently proved a potent weed destroyer when applied...
...many an apprehensive U.S. businessman who was using German and other foreign developments to implement the fight against the Axis, the timing of Biddle's lawsuit was as hard to explain as his suits against many another big war producer-e.g., Standard Oil Co. (N.J.), E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Republic Steel Corp. About all these companies could do was to go on producing, while they waited to see what would happen next. Some of Biddle's flamboyant legal ventures-e.g., the abortive mass trial of alleged seditionists in Washington, his garishly publicized attempt...
...schedule will supply war materials needed by Britain to continue the fight against Japan. In addition, Lend-Lease goods aimed at easing the hard lot of the war-weary British civilians will then be made available in larger quantities. The two principal items for civilians: 1) more foodstuffs to implement the dreary diet Britons have endured for over six years; 2) building materials and prefabricated houses to provide temporary shelter...
...years asperitous, 65-year-old Sir William Beveridge waited in vain for the Government to implement his famed social security report. Last week, his patience exhausted, he forsook Oxford to take his plan to Parliament himself. He will stand as a Liberal, is virtually assured of election under the wartime party truce. Soon he will have another rod in pickle for the Government: his new Plan for Full Employment in a Free Society...