Word: leste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Economically, the idea is wholly, sound, but politically considerations, may swamp it. Business men, concerned lest such concentration destroy the "good-will" value of their trade-marks and ruin the competitive position of the "squeezed-out" firms in trading after the war, are opposing the program as strenuously as is possible in wartime. Some of them have come around to approve the principle, but they insist that the application of it be left in their hands, much as were the old NIRA codes. They are willing to sacrifice so long as it doesn't hurt their post-war position...
...transportation jam, but he could do little with it. For Transportation Chief Joe Eastman has no status on WPB, must work round about. Another is Harold Ickes' separate jurisdiction over petroleum. Authority over electric power rests with six different Federal agencies. Plant expansion has to be checked again, lest there be more factories than materials to feed them...
...Navy Departments will still have the final say on what news will be given the public about armed services, lest it give aid to the enemy...
...place glider trainers on graduated ropes, the little 300-lb. ships take off first, float about 50 ft. up, pointing their noses down to give the ropes some slack so that the plane can get off. Once in the air, like the yachtsman who watches the trembling sail lest it spill the wind, a glider pilot must keep his towline taut or suffer a jerk when it suddenly springs tight. Even in the air, an instructor makes a student keep his ship about 50 feet higher than the towplane to avoid its slipstream...
...Abandon ship!" Before they slid overside into the sea, to be picked up by destroyers and cruisers, all the men lined their shoes in orderly rows on the flight deck. As Captain Sherman followed the last of his crew overboard, another explosion shook the ship. A little later, lest she fall into Jap hands or endanger other ships, a U.S. destroyer torpedoed the Lexington's flaming hulk. "That," said Admiral Sherman, "was the end of the Lexington...