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...course each of these disputes has its merits. You can't just tell Little Steel to go jump in the lake, or ask Labor to overlook excessive profits piled up by the war manufacturers. But we can't hope to have even a fighting chance against two nations like Germany and Japan,--who know what they want in material terms and are sacrificing anything and everything to get it--and fill our own horns with fruits and nuts at the same time. Pearl Harbor got us sore about fighting every local enemy within the town limits. Unless the government takes...
...students would rather have the Dining Halls overlook this committment, they should express their opinion in the form of a thorough investigation and a University poll to determine the choice of alternatives which will meet the more stringent food budget demands and at the same time be acceptable to the majority of the undergraduate body...
Management felt that it had been dealt a card out of a marked deck, but it could not overlook the fact that its tactical position on the labor front had not been changed for the worse. Labor, on the other hand, had agreed to give up its only weapon-its right to strike. Some observers were willing to predict that labor chiefs, having maintained the principle of the closed shop, would not make an issue of it again while the U.S. was at war, certainly had no intention of causing the kind of hullabaloo that John L. Lewis had started...
...want to overlook any promising men even if their prop school records aren't impressive," Hooper said. Last year all offices were filled by appointment, selection being based on the candidate's achievements in secondary school and overlooking enthusiastic men with little experience...
...great numbers. In the Carboniferous period and before, when the earth's coal and oil deposits were formed, there prospered a hard-shelled order of protozoa, the Foraminifera, which were sometimes two inches but usually less than a millimeter across. Micropaleontologists watch for these and do not overlook the fragmentary remains of such creatures as worms, starfish, sea urchins, etc. When oilmen strike a wildcat gusher, they sometimes spend from $1,000 to $2,500 for an analysis of the microfossils which characterize it, so that finding another such well will depend less on luck...