Word: implementation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Into this them O'Neill has woven all the suspense possible. His main implement is the drum which begins to throb at the end of the first act and continues throughout, beating faster and faster as the natives come closer to their prey. To the drum he adds the visions of the fleeing Emperor, and in the murky forest appear the ghost figures of the men that Brutus Jones has killed. At each of these Jones fires a shot out of the precious six that he has until at last he shoots the sixth--a silver bullet he had saved...
...last week in Minneapolis a party of men boarded a train for Washington. Some of the party were officials of the Minneapolis-Moline Power Implement Co., others were C.I.O. union representatives. The Mediation Board wanted to see them. Minneapolis-Moline, which employs 4,100 men, had defense contracts for structural steel and iron for airplane hangars. Since last December, management and union had been arguing over wage increases and other employe demands and getting nowhere. The union had finally filed notice of its intent to strike, and Minnesota's required 30-day "cooling off" period was almost...
...supplying weapons in sufficient quantities to the British, the Chinese and the Greeks. . . . We . . . have not lived up to our tradition of American enterprise and industrial efficiency. . . . If we were fully awake to the danger that threatens us, we should at this hour be producing every implement of defense that we need . . . that the British, the Chinese and the Greeks need, with as great speed as though we were...
Today Congress has before it a bill designed to implement that policy. Commonly known as the "Lease-Lend Bill," this document gives to the Chief Executive wide powers to aid Britain. It empowers him to disregard the Johnson Act and the Neutrality Act. It gives him sole authority over the terms of the transactions whereby American war material of all kinds is to be manufactured and transferred to the British. It grants him the authority to sell, exchange, lease, or lend guns, munitions, aircraft, vessels, machinery, tools, supplies, and military information...
...Sharpened Fears. Next day Pierce Laval went back to Paris to implement this protest, to bargain for the Lorrainers and on other matters. He might not get his way on everything, but there were two German fears which might win him some concessions. They were: 1) French colonies in Africa might somehow fall into British hands; 2) French territories in the Western Hemisphere might be"taken"by the U. S. Both fears were sharpened a little last week...