Word: lets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Let me tell you, TIME, there will never be a man on your staff big enough to "stand in Lindy's shoes...
...requires that U. S. munitions contracts, "except in rare cases," shall be let to the lowest bidders. The bidders include the U. S. arsenals, which naturally can underbid private concerns. Private munitions-making for the U. S. tends to be not only profitless but costly. Members of the Army Ordnance Associations- civilian industries organized under reserve officers and the Assistant Secretary of War-spend large sums keeping up-to-date their factory plans and personnel for munitions-making. It would be not only just but wise for the U. S. to give "educational" orders to such industries. During...
Anticipating critics who would say that to let the War Department place "educational" orders would swamp the War Department with demands for patronage, Secretary Davis referred again to the existing shortage of reserve munitions. Moreover, he pointed out that powder grows old. Small-arm ammunition lives 10 years; artillery shells, 20 years. Also, the War Department has many a new type of gun which it wants to try out. Requests for orders would come no faster than the War Department needs arise. No question of profiteering would enter because the orders would be on such a small scale...
...Let him go," said Stalin, later, then ordered jailed and disciplined the policemen who had not prevented the possible throwing of a bomb...
Picturesque is the story of how the tavern keeper Allessandro Mussolini-father of Benito-warned his tap-wench Rachele Agostini against his son. "Do not let yourself think of that young man," he is said to have said. "It would be better to throw yourself under a train. Married to him you will have neither happiness nor peace...