Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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National holiday or no, banks and stores stayed open in Vicksburg. Firecrackers never popped, skyrockets never tore the night sky. Instead, the story of the black day was passed on from fathers to children, who could see the cannon balls imbedded in Vicksburg's old courthouse. These bitter memories persisted...
...from unnecessary travel." That was the picture, as Fred Vinson saw it, until V-J day. In the very week that he made his report, there was talk in & out of Washington of settling down to a "soft war," i.e., fighting a slow war of attrition against the Japs instead of press ing in for the kill. That was not Vinson's view. "Now," said he, "the face of America turns westward. . . . The objective has been clearly established by President Truman: 'The primary task facing the nation today is to win the war in Japan...
...swallow was the clause in the Wavell Plan (TIME, May 21) fixing equal representation for Moslems and caste Hindus in the new Executive Council. Congress preferred organizational parity with the Moslem League; otherwise, it argued, its many Moslem members (e.g., President Azad) would have to look to the League instead of to Congress for representation. But Moslem League President Mohamed Ali Jinnah liked the parity plan as proposed, made no comment...
Presumably, a new publisher could do without A.P., and take the United Press or International News Service instead. But U.P. and I.N.S. also make costly demands: in 26 U.S. cities, a new publisher would have to pay off heavily to his established rival-no matter which one of the three big wire services he bought. Said Justice Hugo Black (who wrote the majority decision): "The net effect is seriously to limit the opportunity of any new paper to enter these cities . . . and to frustrate the free enterprise system which it was the purpose of the Sherman Act to protect...
...Voiselle, who be gan by winning eight straight and then lost six in a row, is a case in point. After being twice knocked out of the box, Voiselle was leading the Cardinals 3-to-1, with two out in the ninth, when a 53-minute rain interrupted proceedings. Instead of putting in a game-saver for the thoroughly cooled-out Voiselle, Ott left him in, and the Cardinals won the game. Afterwards, Ott fined Voiselle $500 for not wasting an out side pitch after getting a 2-0 count on the batter, who would have been the third...