Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...usual when he speaks, in or out of office, Winston Churchill set the world agog, this time with: 1) an assault on Russia; 2) a plea for combining the military strength of the U.S. and Britain in a "fraternal association." The plea, not new, was nevertheless startling at this juncture of world affairs...
...such advertisement of Birobidjan's attractions was to be found in the domestic Soviet press, Jewish or Gentile. Nor were inquiring foreign Jews welcome visitors. Nevertheless, the Soviet Union has intermittently encouraged its own citizens to settle there. Between 1928 and 1933, 19,000 of them did so; the cold winds blew 12,000 of them back. After 1931, when the Japanese across the Amur River in Manchuria were considered a threat to the Trans-Siberian Railroad, the Soviet Government sold land and the necessary farming equipment to Jewish settlers in Birobidjan for a less-than-cost...
...Nevertheless, in marked contrast to his truculence towards businessmen only a few days before, Bowles showed a sweetly reasonable air. Then, he had stood up before the National Farmers Union in Topeka, Kans. and tonguelashed the "irresponsible, reckless, greedy organizations [who opposed price control] . . . the National Association of Manufacturers . . . the heads of the National Retail Dry Goods Association with all the phony propaganda . . . the real estate lobbies . . . the packers' lobby and textile lobby...
...merits of Friday as opposed to Saturday night saw considerable discussion by the committee. While the inevitable 12 o'clock curfew discouraged the choice of Saturday night, nevertheless the committee thought it might be preferable for out of town girls, and that its selection would make possible a more balanced wekeend...
...Nevertheless, the new flour might be raising more problems than it solved. Higher extraction meant 30% less "mill-feed," the residue from milling which farmers feed their livestock and poultry. With feed already short, chances were that farmers would hang on to their wheat for feed. They had another reason. They hoped to have ceilings taken off farm products. Last week, Secretary of Agriculture Clinton Anderson tried another method, not so painless, to get grain. He boosted the ceiling prices on wheat, now $1.80½ a bushel at Chicago, 3?. Up also went corn, 3? oats, 2? and barley...