Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Argentine people had always been predominantly pro-Ally, but many of them considered it unsportsmanlike to enter the war so late against such nearly beaten enemies. The motives of the unpopular military Government were obvious to all: by declaring war and meeting the other requirements laid down at the Mexico City Conference, the regime might snuggle again in the bosom of hemisphere harmony. Thus relieved of pressure from abroad, it might hold phony elections (even "elect" Strongman Perón to the Presidency), stay in power indefinitely...
...charter was the distillation of some two years of quiet talks between the three. It was brief. It contained some obvious points: that increased prosperity can come only through technological advancement, improved productive efficiency, broader social security and an expanding foreign trade. It also provided that an "enduring peace must be secured" by the "establishment of an international security organization . . . [of the] United Nations capable of preventing aggression...
...shown to exist, the decree which can be entered will be no idle or futile gesture. It will eliminate . . . the collusive practices which the antitrust laws condemn. . . . It will supply an effective remedy." On this, the dissenting Justices, led by Chief Justice Harlan F. Stone, said sharply: "It seems obvious that this Court cannot give any effective relief . . . without breaking down rate regulation by the [Interstate Commerce] Commission...
Over the transatlantic telephone Churchill and Roosevelt, like a couple of worried matrons, talked about food. A British major general with a distinguished record for bravery in Italy faced, with obvious trepidation, his new assignment to handle The Netherlands' "potentially perfectly awful" relief problems. Workers in France's nationalized Renault works hijacked a convoy of meat-laden trucks which had been seized by the Food Ministry. French railwaymen blocked gendarmes "who tried to take away ten cattle, threatened to tie up the big Villeneuve-St.-Georges freight yards with a strike. Paris entered its fourth meatless week. Alarmed...
...this unprecedented undertaking, the National Labor Relations Board will have to concentrate its entire field staff and hire a few additional thousand employes. Accountants figured out that this operation, whose conclusion is obvious to anyone (i.e., a thumping "aye" vote); would cost the U.S. $300,000. The NLRB has not got that much money. Congress will have to appropriate...