Word: proceeding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Evidently Churchill, believing in the righteousness of his efforts, had made up his mind to sacrifice freedom of the press if he thought it necessary to preserve morale and confidence-for a censorship that once gets a broad charter to preserve morale can proceed ruthlessly to suppress press freedom. (Said London's Times bluntly: The purpose of censorship "must not be to maintain morale-not because morale should not but because it cannot be maintained by suppression. The lesson of France on that point is final...
...Argentine merchantman Rio Salado was warped to wharf in Buenos Aires recently, her crew had a tale to tell: on her voyage from New York, the ship had been stopped five separate times by Axis submarines. Once her neutral Argentine markings were proved genuine, she had been allowed to proceed unmolested...
...gratifying to note that hoarding is going on at an unprecedented rate. Previous experience has shown that to get hoarding well organized you should proceed with a maximum of secrecy. The rules have been well observed in this case. During the past several months numerous meetings have been held with industry advisory committees at which, of course, everyone has been sworn not to breathe a word. Everyone understands the rules of the game from this point forward." The rules...
...transformation of the University's science departments into service schools calls for a corresponding acceleration in those departments, like mathematics, which are feeders for the sciences. No engineer, physicist, or chemist can proceed far without a basic mathematical training, for more than one bridge has fallen or radio gone dead because of weaknesses in its designer's calculus...
This week General George C. Marshall, Chief of Staff, made offense the nation's official military policy. The Army would not be diverted by submarine attacks on the coasts, could ill spare combat troops for guard duty. "The time has now come," said General Marshall, "when we must proceed with the business of carrying the war to the enemy...