Word: prior
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...regrettable, however, that the President did not deem it necessary . . . to secure the approval of Congress or permit public discussion. . . . The people have a right to know of such important commitments prior to and not after they are made...
...Compel manufacturers to give the Army, Navy or any other Government agency prior call on their output...
Last week C. I. O. and A. F. of L. officers, many of whom still view such advanced forms of "class collaboration" with alarm, could recall no prior case in which a labor union contributed to an industry's advertising campaign...
London v. Hamburg. Whether or not Germany was feinting to study her foe's reaction, as she did twice last winter before invading the Lowlands, last week the Battle of Britain stayed in the air and at sea. Bad weather reduced the fighting from the busy week prior, but a battle of words raged over results...
...Vale, South Wales), but in financing it he lost control of Richard Thomas & Co. First his own bank, Lloyds, refused a loan, called in an overdraft, nearly strangled Thomas & Co. with a working-capital shortage. The Bank of England agreed to make the loan, but extracted an issue of prior-rights stock and put some of Sir William's chief competitors of the steel cartel (whose mills are oldfashioned, high-cost) on his board. Sir William soon ran afoul of them, was ousted (TIME...