Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Congress had been consulted. If the time comes soon when the President asks for repeal or amendment of the Neutrality Act in order to arm U.S. merchant ships,* Congress will have had a chance to ponder the issue. For the President had made it plain that it was not simply a matter of delivering goods to Britain and Britain's colonies. It was a question of keeping the world's sea lanes open for the passage of such raw materials as rubber and tin, which are essential to U.S. defense. Many a Congressman who had thought the historic...
...thirsty streets of Pasadena, 225 miles away. The Colorado had not changed its course. The cool stream flowing over the desert and through the mountains was a man-made river, a giant aqueduct created to carry water to the semi-arid cities of Southern California's coastal plain...
...then, under special pressure, a Japanese diplomat startles the world with a statement of plain, simple candor, and such a statement came last week from bony little Kenkichi Yoshizawa, head of Japan's economic mission to The Netherlands East Indies. He had been politely informed last fortnight that The Netherlands East Indies had not the least idea of allowing Japan increased shipments of rubber, oil and tin. Speaking over the telephone to the Tokyo press, Commissioner Yoshizawa said: "The choice before us would seem to be either statesmanship or physical force...
...Harry Merrill Murdock of the Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital in Towson, Md. declared that U.S. citizens suffer from "great nervous stress [from] . . . so many terrifying alarms." In Germany, he continued, "control of neurosis has been attained. . . . Everyone has something to do and it is plain to him that what he is doing is a definite stride toward the goal he desires...
Whatever the court decides, one thing is plain: there is some fight in Wall Street yet-or at least in Morgan Stanley...