Word: lags
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...active were all steel mills last week that pig-iron production had begun to lag behind them. Steelmen therefore upped their purchases of scrap, the alternate ingredient used with or instead of pig iron. Last week they grumbled because they had bid the price up $2 in ten days to $21. They grumbled also because the Defense Commission still sanctioned scrap exports...
...search for native oracles of U. S. fashion is an old one. Hollywood, with a lag between picture production and release, has long had to anticipate (or rise above) the coming styles. Its designers-led by M. G. M.'s Adrian-have a cachet of their own. Last week Hollywood Agent Mitchell J. (for Joseph) Hamilburg, who sold $1,000,000 worth (retail) of Deanna Durbin frocks to the trade in 1938, was organizing a fashion guild of studio designers to dictate the mode. Main drawbacks to Hollywood as a complete substitute for Paris (it has influenced Paris) were...
...could rush out after contracts for war goods, and upset our general business world. We could do that very easily, but it would only mean a lag in total production. It is better to follow a plan...
...Laval and his fellow Rightists, the Front Populaire was responsible for the subsequent degeneration of France. The Popular Front let rearmament lag while it pushed through its reforms. The Popular Front sent to Loyalist Spain munitions needed at home. The Popular Front pushed Italy into the Axis. The Popular Front undermined those institutions represented by the slogan of fascist France: Labor, The Family, The Fatherland. So thought, and still thinks, the Right...
...many boatloads sank in the inferno the Nazis poured on them may not be known until the post-war opening of archives. At Gallipoli the British suffered 50,000 casualties out of 120,000 troops landed. The N. W. E. F. affair, a pint-sized Gallipoli, will probably lag far behind that proportion of losses. The rating of those who ordered it, and then countermanded it, will be even lower. The Germans saluted its departure with a furious effort to sink a battleship from the air, a loud but hollow claim of having done...