Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...meeting will not be a debate, but merely a discussion to cover all phases of the question and draw some conclusions. Normally the three would offset each other, for Compton and Carmichael are both reputed to be mildly for the draft...
Sense to Stalin. Only Joseph Stalin could answer the prime question: what was Russia after? At Yalta, he had argued that Russia needed extra votes to offset Britain's six (the United Kingdom, four dominions, India). And he had pointed out, unanswerably, that India was no more independent than the 16 quasi-autonomous Soviet Republics...
...effect, the U.S. has already supplied dollars to offset invasion currency, although there is no guarantee that it will be used for redemption. In view of this, skeptical money men last week wondered: would the U.S. eventually have to make good, in the same manner, on the millions of dollars in invasion marks now being spent in Germany...
...exaggerated. The Germans used it ... and it was spread among our friends as well as among our enemies. The U.S. Senate was told that between 15,000 and 18,000 Canadian troops had thrown their rifles overboard. The damage was irreparable. We are doing what we can to offset it by repeating the denial and even releasing particulars of the one poor offender's court-martial and sentence, * but we cannot hope that this will counteract the further wanton damage done to our country...
...started south from Lingayen we began flying plastic printing plates and photographic positives of each week's Pony Edition to Luzon in the hope that some prewar presses would be found intact there (plates in case we found letter presses still available, positives if we found presses for offset lithography still standing...