Word: object
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weeks, under able, studious Chairman Clifton Woodrum, the special committee had pondered the whole idea. Their object was not to write a law but to study "the field of policy." For two weeks members had listened to more than 100 witnesses; hearings filled over 600 pages. Among the witnesses: General of the Army George Marshall, Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King, B. F. McLaurin of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, Mrs. Charles D. Rockel, chairman of the international relations committee of the Royersford (Pa.) Woman's Club...
During Admiral Stone's tenure, the main object of Allied rule in Italy was to make the country tenable for Allied armies. Now the troops are clearing out, and Commissioner Douglas' job will be political and economic. Before he took it on, he sought assurances that he would have a positive, clear-cut U.S. policy to apply in Italy. The lack of such a policy in the past hamstrung Admiral Stone, gave Italians a poor opinion of western democracy, and made occupied Italy practically a British fief...
With that object in view, he allotted the 16 million square feet of Government factory space as follows...
They were on a fishing trip in the woods of Oregon's Lake County: the Rev. Archie Mitchell, his wife, and five children. Joan Patzke, 11, spotted a strange white object. Another child tugged at the thing. Suddenly there was a tremendous explosion. Only the minister survived...
...object of full employment is to provide a big enough market so that private industry can profitably employ those who want to work-not to provide made-work, Government jobs...