Word: matter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bacon and fresh (not dried) eggs-those are the main elements of the holiday I'm planning. Reason: they're in short supply here. Transportation should be easy. I leave London in the afternoon, am due to reach Minnesota next evening. Then it's just a matter of eating, drinking, lying out in the sun and listening to the grass grow...
...Republican majority was still out to twist the President's tail (TIME, July 14), and Harry Truman's veto of the revived tax-cut bill did not cool any tempers. Senate Republicans brought up a measure to investigate Attorney General Tom Clark's handling of a matter close to Harry Truman's home voting booth. The author of the resolution, Missouri's Senator James...
Pattern in Nanking. Without waiting for Wedemeyer's appraisal, Nanking last week officially buried the notion that the war was going to be won in a matter of weeks or months, or settled by talks around a table. The theme now was "war to the death," as Nanking issued new mobilization edicts covering increased conscription, new taxes, wage and price control. The most optimistic talk was, "victory within a year," with a string...
...general secretary and boss of the National Union of Mine Workers, Arthur Horner controls the key to Britain's survival-coal. No matter how much aid the U.S. gives Britain and the Continent, Europe cannot recover unless Britons mine more coal. After a slight increase last spring, coal production is falling off again. That was the gist of Fuel and Power Minister Emanuel Shinwell's report to the House of Commons last week...
Rayburn's stand tossed the matter right back to the Senate and Senator Wherry of Nebraska, the Republican whip, said that chamber might be held in session all night in an effort to get action...