Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harry Truman meant his fireside chat to be a success. A man well aware of his limitations, he nevertheless hoped to transcend them. He had reached a turning point in his presidential career; he wanted to round the corner with banners flying...
...have nothing like that number next July i. After January, declared the slightly confused Army, the U.S.-bound legions will be reduced to less than 300,000 a month-although there is shipping available for twice as many. The new order means that a G.I. eligible for discharge may nevertheless be kept overseas until a replacement arrives...
...amount of money in circulation normally declines the first week in January. But last week, in the biggest drop since 1933, it fell off $150,000,000. There was still the enormous sum of $28½ billion in circulation. Nevertheless, Manhattan bankers sniffed a trend. They suspected that the currency in circulation, which has almost tripled since 1941, may have reached its peak. But the Federal Reserve Bank was not willing to do any predicting. It was well aware that the peak after World War I was not reached till...
Russian guides and interpreters kept close check on the traveling reporters and their G.I. drivers. Nevertheless the Americans saw all they had asked to see, and talked with Germans along the way. When the trip ended some new facts were...
...Houdaille-Hershey Corp. was asked to make a screen fine enough to .screen out U-235 atoms as they came bouncing through the pipes. It succeeded even though it could not discover why its process worked. Nevertheless they turned out hundreds of acres of such screens. The notable contribution of Chrysler was something which sounded simple-nickel-plating the all-important pipes. The trick that had to be done was to nickel-plate them inside. Not until Chrysler turned the trick could Oak Ridge operate...