Word: pointedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fact, the 81st Congress spent more money than any other Congress in peacetime history. It whittled no significant amount off Harry Truman's budget at any point, but it added a few hundred millions here & there. It gave raises to just about everybody-the President, the Cabinet, high Administration officials, postal and civil-service employees. Its total outlay in cash, contract authority, tax refunds and debt service amounted to a whopping $51 billion...
There were some failures. The 81st Congress had meanly failed to liberalize D.P. legislation. It had approved six executive reorganization plans submitted by Harry Truman, but ignored the basic reforms outlined by the Hoover Commission. It had failed to authorize funds for President Truman's Point Four program for foreign investments...
...maneuver was one more small piece in the growing pattern of joint defense. Both Washington and Ottawa want a pool of officers and men who know how both services work. Recently Canada's Naval Air Group 18 finished an intensive three-month course at Quonset Point, R.I. With U.S. pilots, they concentrated on detecting and bombing schnorkel submarines. This month, the Canadian destroyer Halda spent two weeks training in Chesapeake Bay, then sailed with a U.S. Navy amphibious force for a practice assault on the coast of Labrador...
...theories that cancer gets started by chronic irritation and that it is the product of heredity. Both, he said, are supported by evidence of "doubtful value," and both may cause researchers to ignore a wide field of potentially valuable research in preventing the disease. Dr. Hueper's main point: almost every known cancer-producing agent can be traced to environment, particularly certain processes of modern industries...
Using a minimum of tools, he succeeded. As Jean Cassou, curator of Paris' Musée d'Art Moderne put it, Léger became "the greatest primitive of our modern industrial age." A retrospective show which Cassou's museum was staging last week proved the point. With the few elements Leger allowed himself-poster colors and shapes that looked as if they had been stamped out of sheet metal " -he made just what he had in mind: paintings such as Disks in the City that were loud, bold, intricate and fierce as fire engines...