Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Blow Two. Truman's next punch was directed more at AAF judgment than at Curtiss: "The [Curtiss] P-40 fighter planes have performed valuable work on the various fighting fronts, but were relatively obsolete when we entered the war. . . . The committee regrets the earlier [Army] decisions which concentrated so large a portion of our production on a plane which, although usable, is at best a second choice. The North American P-51 [Mustang], characterized by both the British and the Army Air Forces as the most aerodynamically perfect pursuit plane in existence, was in production in 1941. . . . It would...
...march on the Hudson's Bay Co. This gave its bearded, fur-hatted voyageurs a quicker route for their flat-bottomed bateaux. During the war of 1812, Americans wrecked this canal. Later, when the Michigan legislature asked Congress to dig a new canal, Congress refused, relying on the judgment of Orator Henry Clay, who cried: "It is a work quite beyond the remotest settlement of the United States-if not the moon...
Before this trio of legal eagles in Manhattan, the Government brought its dreaded anti-trust suit against A. P. There were no witnesses. It was a motion for summary judgment. For five hours and 15 minutes, the three judges listened patiently to the year's stiffest legal arguing...
Franklin Roosevelt brushed an ash from his shirt front, said (perhaps to forestall peace "negotiators"): The good judgment of Italians cannot be proved, of course, until the Germans have been driven from Italian soil...
Last month India's Chief Justice Sir Maurice Linford Gwyer declared invalid the emergency statute under which Mohandas K. Gandhi and 8,000 lesser All-India Congress leaders had been detained since last August. The Raj was unruffled. Technically the Viceroy accepted the judgment, but he refused to release edition of the newspaper Critica was suppressed for carrying an attack on Castillo and an appeal for speed in realizing hemisphere cooperation...