Search Details

Word: lidded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Trouble simmered all over the South last week. When the Supreme Court decided (8-to-1) that Texas-and, by implication, all Southern states-must allow Negroes to vote in white Democratic primaries, the lid came off the race problem. At the end of a jittery, egg-walking week three facts emerged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Bomb | 4/17/1944 | See Source »

According to Lazarus, the lid of Federal control should come off at once whenever and wherever civilian goods can be turned out, or Government surpluses released, without interfering with war production. As for glutting the market, he reminded fearmongers that postwar production must be vastly greater than ever before. His clinching argument: "We cannot get a $135-billion national income out of 1939 quotas set on an $80 billion economy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSITION: Fear of the Future | 3/13/1944 | See Source »

...white men had ever seen Truk, one of the world's great naval outposts. The Japs clamped a lid on it years ago when they began developing it as the key to their South Pacific empire-to-be. Last week, in a swift and massive surprise attack by a great U.S. task force, the veil was rent. For two days, swarms of Naval aviators saw Truk, again & again. And Truk took a savage, historic pounding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Return Visit | 2/28/1944 | See Source »

Diplomatically, the lid was on. But Acting Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius Jr. indicated that a "comprehensive announcement" of U.S. plans and policy was being readied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Oil and Policy | 2/21/1944 | See Source »

...talking hopefully of supplying pent-up demands for many a much-missed article of everyday life. It still plans soon to increase the manufacture of alarm clocks, let a score of other minor items dribble out. But for the most part, OCR has now decided to keep the lid on tight until it becomes certain that renewed civilian manufactures will not interfere with the invasion of Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CIVILIAN SUPPLY,AVIATION,RENEGOTIATION: For Babies Only | 1/24/1944 | See Source »

Previous | 172 | 173 | 174 | 175 | 176 | 177 | 178 | 179 | 180 | 181 | 182 | 183 | 184 | 185 | 186 | 187 | 188 | 189 | 190 | 191 | 192 | Next