Word: insistences
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Considering the murky didos of many monarchs since history's dawn, perhaps TIME'S statement was rather too sweeping. But London's experts on royalty insist that among living kings and ex-kings, George II is entitled to a first...
Tommy Holcomb's Corps musters close to 40,000, includes a small, well-integrated army (the Fleet Marine Force) equipped with tanks, airplanes, machine guns, artillery. But in Holcomb's day, as in Burrows', the Marines still insist on restoring Politeness...
Question in many an independent exhibitor's mind was why Arnold had proved so lenient, failed to insist on his threatened divorce. Official explanation: the divorce threat was merely a means to a lesser end-the end of block booking. The Big Five, who have ducked an expensive legal battle and still have their theatres, are not complaining. But their costs will rise for three reasons: 1) salesmen must make the rounds once every few weeks instead of annually; 2) there must be more good pictures, fewer "turkeys," or sales will flop; 3) the new arbitration setup will cost...
Actually the base of the Willkie campaign had been broadened so far that some observers thought more might finally be spent on the Willkie campaign than had been forked up for Landon or Hoover. Yet G. O. P. Chairman Martin could honestly insist that the Hatch Act ($3,000,000 limit) was being observed with pharisaic strictness by the National Committee-for outside the National Committee were scores of organizations, uncontrolled and uncontrollable, collecting and spending money for the man they want to win. From coast to coast there were anti-Roosevelt or pro-Willkie organizations, maintaining extensive paid staffs...
...sense. A few are necessary. All delay production. Manufacturers understand that some mid-production alterations in both engines and planes are required. What grinds their gears is that responsible officers in the Army Air Corps and the Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics are so ostrich-blind as to insist that they now have standardization-thus postponing real standardization...