Word: nonetheless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Observing that "a good counselor doesn't try to tell anybody what to do but merely tries to help him find his own answer," Mrs. Duvall nonetheless hinted that marriage counselors were not quite so sure as they had been in peacetime that marrying in haste is a thoroughly bad thing. Said she: "There is ... the attitude everywhere that 'we might as well have what we want while we can have...
...policy by allowing materials to be allocated only to projects "necessary for direct national defense or . . . essential to the health and safety of the people." Again & again Government men have underlined the no-building-except-for-war theme. But much nonwar building (both private and public) has gone on nonetheless. Lately, as builders' hoards of scarce materials have dwindled, bootlegging has been growing. This week comes the inevitable crackdown...
...Nonetheless, grain alcohol will probably help to relieve the sugar shortage. It may also be relieved, paradoxically, by the shipping shortage. Of the sugar which the U.S. has bought from Cuba, 1,500,000 tons is earmarked for Lend-Lease shipments to the Allies. If the shipping is not available to carry it across the oceans, some of it may take the shorter route...
...take over the whole job (though he never got around to giving him an executive order). White-haired Bache lor Crowley is a busy man: he is not only Chairman of FDIC, but of huge Standard Gas & Electric, and a director or officer of eight or ten other firms. Nonetheless, he told the President he would be Alien Property Custodian too provided it were set up as an independent agency...
...Nonetheless, University of Cincinnati's President Raymond Walters, semiofficial U.S. campus nose-counter, reported last fortnight that the draft and defense jobs had cut enrollment in 669 leading colleges an average of 9.16% this fall. Stirred by this statistic and the U.S. entry into the war, many colleges last week announced plans for speeding up a college education without watering its quality: > Yale, Harvard and Princeton jointly launched a scheme to cut their course from four to less than three years by staying in session all year round. All three will let freshmen start next June instead...