Word: orders
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
First involved were the thousands pouring through the massive Doric columns of the Brandenburger Tor on their way to homes in the Russian sector. An open truck carrying some dozen Soviet-sector police drove towards them up Unter den Linden-apparently dispatched with the vague intent of keeping order. The crowd jeered them; rocks followed jeers and the melée began...
...fighting speech at Santa Fé last week, President Perón said: "In order to cut off the international monopolies at the frontiers I created IAPI. Before, foreign trade was done by trusts. Today the government is doing it, with the difference that then it was done for the trusts' sole benefit, and today the government is doing it for the benefit of the people. This year IAPI made $418 million [a total hard to accept in the light of lAPI's declining sales]. Before the trusts made it. They are not content, but the people should...
...brisk little Bavarian delegate proposed that delegates from Berlin be invited as "guests and advisers." Before a vote could be taken, Reimann was on his feet again. "Zur Geschäftsordnung" (Point of order), he yelled, but was ignored. His face turned red, his grey hair flopped about wildly. "Traitors! . . . Stooges! ... Well, in a few months there will be no assembly, there will be none of you . . . der Tag is coming...
...Sassenach trick. Unable to pronounce Gaelic names, Edward IV issued an order in 1465 requiring all Irishmen to take "an English surname of one towne, as Sutton, Chester . . . or art or science ... or office, as cook, butler." Though the law was generally ignored, the Irish did find it expedient to Anglicize their names. In the proud name O Ceallaigh, for example, the O was dropped, hard Irish c became k, the guttural aigh softened to y; and the result was Kelly. Many Eire patriots are now reversing the process, with Murphy re-emerging as O Murchadha, and Moriarty...
Moreover, the order contained a new provision that would intensify the shortage. Companies with military orders can henceforth be allocated steel to fill those orders even though they may already have enough steel on hand. The House Small Business Committee insisted on this provision, so that little companies would not have to use up their slim inventories on military orders. But they would probably get less steel for consumer goods anyway; in the scramble for the shrinking supply of non-allocated steel, mills were apt to serve their biggest customers first...