Word: insistences
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...entire effort to plan a summer season has been handicapped by the unavailability of transportation facilities and by the lack of an appropriation from the H. A. A. The former makes it necessary for the opposition to be local teams and for the services to provide trucks if they insist on the Varsity's playing them away. The lack of financial support places the season on an informal basis with equipment being supplied by the individual players and Harvard uniforms being passed out only before each game...
...times as many motor trucks can be shipped to U.S. armed forces in Australia as are now being shipped, in the same num-ber of vessels. This result could be achieved by shipping the trucks "CKD" (completely knocked down) instead of to the Army's present specifications, which insist that the trucks be practically ready to roll. Boxes containing CKD vehicles are smaller and more tightly filled than those needed for assembled units. Furthermore, smaller packages stow to better advantage in hold or 'tween decks. Such a fourfold flow of trucks is no pipe dream. Detroit motormakers regularly...
...last February, Litvinoff appealed for a second front indirectly, half-humorously: Russia, long the world's stepchild, does not like to beg anything. Said Litvinoff: "We are proud that it has fallen to our lot to smash Hitler's war machine, but we by no means insist on exclusive rights...
Latest victim of the war are the music stores, for on April 22 the government froze 70 per cent of the shellae vital to the production of phonograph records. Now record producers insist that dealers turn in one used record for every three new ones they obtain, and music stores feel that soon they will have to ask customers to bring in old recordings in exchange for new purchases. Radio manufacture also was stopped in April, but the most acute shortage in this connection is of skilled repairmen, many of whom have joined the Army Signal Corps...
...railroads insist that no cars can be loaded unless they can be promptly unloaded. By fall, said one railroader, "We are going to have ten places to put boxcars for every boxcar we have got." Thus no cars can be used for storage purposes. Any shipper who tries it will be promptly embargoed...