Word: lieu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Trust Fund. In Dallas, Earnest S. Powell told police that two hold-up men had settled, in lieu of cash, for a $15 check...
When Western Nations gathered to sign the Atlantic Pact, another meeting of importance took place in Washington. After months of debate on both sides of the Atlantic, France, England, and the United States finally wrote all occupation statute to serve in lieu of a treaty for Western Germany. The French objection to the proposed Western German state that has held up Allied agreement on policies toward the defeated nation was satisfied, enabling the three Western occupying powers to take a definite, united stand on the type of government they want in the constitution for Western Germany...
...When about $500 in arrears, I took stock of my position, confiding in one of the selectmen and proffering him my note in lieu of immediate cash. His attitude was, unfortunately, one of sympathy and tolerance. People are sometimes kind when strict reality is more in order...
Even New Dealing, rebellious Henry Kaiser, who believes in maximum expansion (he is currently spending upwards of $45 million on Fontana alone), agreed with other steelmen that the key to more expansion is the quicker-or more realistic-write-off of its cost. In lieu of that, Kaiser has adopted his own harsh substitute. He raised the price of his Fontana steel $30 a ton to apply against the Government debt on his plant...
Such slowdowns (usually over trumped-up reasons) had harassed Chicago's dailies for weeks, since their contracts with the powerful International Typographical Union had expired. The I.T.U. was trying to pressure Marshall Field-and other publishers-into accepting the I.T.U.'s unilateral "conditions of employment" in lieu of the contracts the publishers thought they were entitled to. They knew as well as the union that by posting the "conditions" the union would keep its closed shop, and that they might be liable to prosecution under the Taft-Hartley...