Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hero of the Pacific War, he was nevertheless a little suspect in Senators' eyes. The reason: a special committee of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, appointed to survey merger opinion among generals and admirals, had reported Nimitz as favoring the idea on Dec. 8, 1944. The committee quoted him as saying: "I favor a single civilian secretary of armed forces, with a complete elimination of civilian secretaries for the Army, for the Navy, and for the Air Forces, with the idea of reducing any tendency to separation." This was eye-to-eye with the way the Army sees today...
...tried popcorn, 100 acres of it. Spring rains washed out 70 acres, but the croppaid off handsomely nevertheless. The remaining popcorn yielded $135 an acre (on land worth only $50 an acre) in weather that almost ruined Oklahoma's cotton crop...
...Nevertheless, the market was on solider ground, dividendwise, than it had been in 1937. Example: railroad stocks now pay dividends of 5.44% compared to only...
...Nevertheless, there were bright spots. Up was Shell Union oil with a net income of $8,628.960 v. $8,030.693. Standard Brands was also up. Businessmen were still keeping their fingers crossed. But Wall Streeters guessed that out of every five companies, profits will be down for three...
...Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court are so overburdened with work that they rarely find time to read an extracurricular book.* Nevertheless, lawyers agree that lawyers should read something beyond Coke and Blackstone. Last week G.I.s who intend to become lawyers could get a helpful reading list of 90 books from two Harvard law professors, Zechariah Chafee Jr. and John M. Maguire. Some of the choices, such as ex-Dean Roscoe Pound's The Spirit of the Common Law, were strictly on the legal beam. Some others...