Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Grozny region, only 100 miles from the Caspian. Thus far they had followed a railway paralleling the Greater Caucasus range, which towers east to west between the Caspian and Black Seas. Marshal Fedor von Bock was apparently taking the classic invasion route, by way of the Caspian coastal plain to Baku. There were only three other routes, all difficult. One was the narrow Black Sea coast, where the mountains almost tumble into the sea. The second was the Georgian Military Road, twisting up through narrow defiles and a pass 7,823 feet high before it falls southward to Tiflis...
...hearty, plain-spoken Elinore M. Herrick, New York Regional Director for NLRB, settled a labor dispute at the Hoboken yards of the Todd Shipyards Corp. in favor of the workers. Last week, after nine years of public service, she joined Todd as director of labor relations and personnel. "It is all the jobs I ever wanted rolled into one," said...
...using South American airlines more than ever. Most of this new flying is war business. Thus for months all planes headed from Miami and Brownsville to the Canal Zone have been so jam-packed with U.S. diplomats, soldiers, construction workers and South American priority traffic that many plain citizens and tons of cargo have been left behind. In Peru the natives gripe at the coolness of some U.S. airmen, get peeved because U.S. operators do not dish out free rides as the Nazis did, get mad when families of Latin American officials are pushed off airliners in favor of servants...
General Arnold did not lie. Everything he said about U.S. planes was technically accurate. He had simply fallen into an old Army habit of selecting facts which made his whole picture look a little better than the plain truth. For example, it may well be that U.S. fighter pilots in Britain are training and battling in Spitfires mainly because Britain has plenty of efficient fighter planes, and that the economical thing to do was to put U.S. pilots in those planes. But it is also true (and more revealing) that the U.S. now has no fighter plane, thoroughly proven...
...over still higher wages and most of the workers walked out on $60,000,000 in defense orders. The Cleveland News ran a picture of Cheyfitz on page one, flatly accused him of starting the strike. Snarled the News: "He is a regular member of Communist caucuses." The reliable Plain Dealer also blamed Cheyfitz for most of the trouble, cited a Dies report that he was "active in the bloody [Electric] Auto-Lite strike in Toledo...