Word: par
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After that, the next step would probably be a Varsity team which would include representatives from as many groups as regulations permit. This team, which would be on a par with Varsities of the pre-Pearl Harbor days, could have regular games with other colleges, Army camps, Navy bases, or just about anyone...
...Russian front, where this war may yet be decided, the greatest armies in the world skirmished, probed and par ried. South of Moscow, in the sector where the biggest forces were concentrated, a few Russian battalions seized four German positions. A few German battalions tried & failed to recapture the positions, and to that small extent the Red Army was in better shape to break a major German offensive, or to launch one of its own. Both the Luftwaffe and the Red Air Force, for the first time in the Russian war, turned their main energies to strategic bombing behind...
...Problem. Of the 3,452,800 shares of $5 par value stock of Ford Motor Co., Edsel held 41.65%, his mother held slightly more than 3%. Henry Ford held the remainder, in iron control of the company, which is valued at $718,000,000.* If this valuation were accepted by the Federal Government for tax purposes (though it might be higher or lower) the tax on Edsel's holdings could be roughly computed at 75%, or $225,000,000. The plain fact is that there may be enough liquid assets in the Ford empire to pay even this enormous...
...food is almost universally good. You get plenty of meat, butter, and milk, with no worries about ration books and 16 points a week. During my five-day so-journ in North Carolina I had a fried chicken meal that was literally on a par with anything the Ritz-Carlton or Locke Ober's can offer...
Although it has been argued that the government is sovereign and cannot set up any body on a par with itself, the fact remains that governmental units are faced with important problems of human and industrial relations. Grievances and mismanagement will crop up. The question arises: "What is the function of a union in this situation," and the answer is important both for the present emergency in the mines and future problems in government operated and controlled enterprises...