Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...union men went on strike to give his job to another [TIME, Aug. 15]. Omaha, indeed, must be quite a city. No doubt the 300 strikers and Labor Leader Preble must feel rather proud of themselves for having secured the job for a "real American" instead of a foreigner...
...made by trying to make haste, and that we must let nature take its course in the Senate." Well, the Democrats had a 54-member majority in the Senate, didn't they, asked Indiana's Homer Capehart. Why didn't they get down to business instead of "playing politics, fooling the American people, and playing drop the handkerchief...
...OEEC is currently fighting over (see below); a freer hand in spending their ECA allotment; a cut in U.S. tariff duties on British goods, an easing of U.S. customs red tape, and permission to save dollars by discriminating more freely against certain imports from the U.S. (i.e., buying goods, instead, from America's competitors if they can furnish them more cheaply). Sir Stafford Cripps was still reported stubbornly opposed to devaluation of the pound, but there was growing feeling in Britain that devaluation, while a severe and only incomplete measure, might be a good thing in the long...
...already shipping some mead to Bermuda; Mexico has given the largest single order so far (5,000). U.S. citizens will have their chance at mead; plain, it tastes like a Rhine wine but has more sting. Special varieties are sack mead, which tastes like Tokay; cyser, in which cider instead of water is mixed with honey to make a wine that tastes like sherry; and pyment, or clarre, which is like claret...
...betatron is not basically a producer of X rays, but of high-speed electrons. Since little is yet known about the effect of electrons on the human body, they are not used directly. Instead, a superbarrage of electrons is fired against a platinum target, which then gives off the X rays...