Word: reasons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other end of Pennsylvania Avenue, in the gigantic empty caverns where oratory and reason often mix in unequal proportions, workmen had ripped out the seats and equipment in the Senate and House chambers; ugly steel beams still upheld the ceilings. A visitor to Washington would find the President of the U.S. and Senators and Representatives all working in crabbed quarters...
...said the State Department, Chiang conceded little and always too late: the official record depicts him as a leader whose wisdom was corrupted by power, his reason corroded by fear. He balked at the zealous U.S. envoys who urged and arranged negotiations with Communist leaders. As he became ever more stubbornly sure that Chinese unity could be won only by whipping the Red armies in battle, U.S. advisers from General Marshall down ever more firmly warned he could not win. They still thought China should make a deal with the Communists. Dead set against any deal of the kind, Chiang...
Catch Them Vulnerable. Chief reason for this, the authors say, is that not all insects are vulnerable at the same time. Some are tough adults; some are leading sheltered lives under bark or soil. Moderate doses of DDT have little effect on these. If a forest is sprayed when the pest insect is vulnerable, most of the non-pests come through unscathed...
General Motors, one of the biggest single U.S. employers, was acting as if it had never heard the word "recession." First-half profits hit an astronomical $303.7 million, 46% above 1948. The reason: as steel became plentiful this year, G.M. was able for the first time since the war to push its production throttle to the floor board. G.M. intended to keep it there: next week, Chevrolet's Flint plant will add an extra shift to step up production from 480 cars a day to 680. In 1949's second quarter, G.M. had already broken all previous quarterly...
Olds also boxed himself in worse than the situation warranted, by neglecting to point out one basic reason why the 1949 figures looked so much better than 1948's -because the steel industry had been forced to curtail production for six weeks in the spring of 1948 while John L. Lewis' coal strike was on. Instead, Olds contented himself with asserting that Big Steel's ability to pay had nothing to do with the case. Said he: "There is no justification at this time for a fourth round . . . I do not believe it would be good...