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...another way of saying that Britain's democratic socialism had found no way of getting men to work where they did not want to work, or. of acquiring new and better machines to do their work for them. The "manpower shortage" was also a reflection of the cruel overlap between the old responsibilities of empire and the newly limited capabilities of an impoverished country. In the week of the coal crisis, Britain's Government decided to maintain its armed forces at over a million men. Many (including the Communists) had urged Britain to abandon her commitments in Greece...
...m.p.h. edge in speed, had overtaken the DC-3. The Pilot did not see the smaller plane; the copilot did, just in time. He pulled back mightily on the yoke to drive the big plane over the smaller. It was a good try: a few more inches of overlap would have sent 85 people to certain death in aviation's worst disaster. As it was, it was air transport's most incredible escape...
...Blue network decided to overlap its own stay-tuned-in plugs. Wednesday-night sponsors were persuaded to give up the last ten seconds of their shows, allow Blue to plug the following show for 30 seconds instead of the usual 20. If the overlapping plug works out on Wednesdays, Blue may use it seven nights a week...
King's English. In Birmingham, the Southern Medical Journal printed Dr. Byron King's article entitled: "Lantzounis Periosteo-Capsuloplasty for Congenital Dorsal Sublaxation or Congenital Overlap of Fifth...
...other omission is the stage of the campaign reached last week. As summer wore on, the nature of the pattern began to alter slightly. Instead of repetitions following one after another, they began to overlap-one blow or even two fell before the previous exploitation was complete. The theme remained the same but the rhythm was syncopated...