Word: provisos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...coaches, for, although some of the men are not subject to call immediately, all are required to go after receiving a six-month notice. This proviso may be waived, however, in case of extreme emergency, so Dick Harlow, with spring practice coming up, and Floyd Stable, with baseball drill well under way, are on tender books...
...House voted $100,000,000 to the Office of Civilian Defense with the proviso that...
...This proviso, however, was offset by recommendations and the setting up of machinery for the prompt interchange of strategic materials because of the "imperative character and extreme urgency of the existing situation"-in effect a freeze-out of whatever Axis trade remained...
Admiral Land's prediction was no rosy dream. It was a fact-&-figure estimate of present and future ship production hedged by only one condition: the usual proviso against labor trouble and shortage of materials, neither of which is specifically in sight...
...homes. Best hope of getting the others out still lay in the British merchant marine. Though the Hennings Bill (passed last week but not yet countersigned by Hitler) has granted permission to U. S. ships to go into combat zones to evacuate children, it carries the proviso that a grant of safe conduct must first be obtained from the belligerents. Germany last week practically nullified the measure when the official Nazi news agency declared that no guarantees could be given ships passing through mine-infested waters* no exception could be made to the announced total blockade of England...