Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plain that unless the Manpower Commission, the Army, the Navy and Congress could reach a meeting of minds on a clear-cut program, the U.S. faced a breakdown in war production and essential civilian economy...
...Plain were two propaganda objectives in this and other recent German speeches: > To play on the fear of defeat in order to wring new sacrifices from the German people, and keep them united internally. > To divide Russia from her allies by harping on the familiar theme that Germany is the European bulwark against Bolshevism...
...Christian doctrine of love for one's enemies? Stout called it "worse than double-talk . . . plain nonsense...
...Plain fact was that institution of the new work week was the first move in Jimmy Byrnes's fight to stem the whole inflation tide. Same day the order was announced, WLB turned down the request of 180,000 meat packers for a wage increase. It was clear that the Administration has now definitely decided to stick by the Little Steel formula, come hell or high water. The new work week, with its overtime pay, was an effort to make all future wage demands appear unpatriotically selfish...
...This may well explain the fact that both Roosevelt and Churchill, in their speeches last week, pointedly assured plain Germans they had nothing to fear from defeat. Said Roosevelt: ". . . We do mean to impose punishment and retribution in full upon their guilty, barbaric leaders...