Word: insistences
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...farmers into the nation's critical food production battle by providing them supervision and credit for needed equipment, feed and fertilizer. Twice Parisius submitted such plans to Claude Wickard. Twice the Food Boss agreed, only to change his mind in the knowledge that the big farmers' lobbyists insist production increases can come only through higher prices...
...offered an immediate three-point program: 1) the church must "insist that there is a God Who is the final authority over life"; 2) develop "international life ... by strengthening her missions work"; 3) "find a new pattern of interracial relationships. . . . Men and women of all races are one family in Christ...
...People who insist on maintaining short hours should read your story about what the men of the 19th have been through and then spend a few minutes in serious thought. I might also mention one letter written by my brother on Aug. 7 (just eight months after Pearl Harbor) in which he stated that during that eight-month period he had had only four days off from combat flying and during those four days he was on duty at the flying field...
...would be a prosperous Christmas. Throughout December, U.S. stores had been crowded as never before; sales topped those in 1941, when everyone had told himself it would be the last real Christmas for the duration. The people did not insist on luxuries, or on necessities ; they bought everything. With money jingling in their pockets, they swarmed up to the counters; they said wrap it up before they asked the price. In Cleveland, employes of Lincoln Electric Co. got bonuses averaging $3,000. In Beverly Hills, an uppity dowager surveyed the crowd in Saks's swank shop, asked...
...Bernard) might get the job. He was re-elected last month, had himself sworn in for his new term by his nephew one hour and ten minutes after he heard of Loomis' death. Though Wisconsin's Constitution makes no such provision, Walter Goodland's friends insist that he should on Inauguration Day (Jan. 4) become acting governor...