Word: regretting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...letter of regret, U.S. Steel President Benjamin F. Fairless made it plain why Big Steel 'was abandoning the war baby it had built for the Government in 1941. Prime reason was a provision in the Surplus Property Act which provides that Government metals plants costing more than $5,000,000 may not be lease;! for more than five years, nor leased with an option to buy. A five-year lease was not good enough for U.S. Steel for two reasons: 1) Geneva is still an unsettled financial property-to make Geneva a postwar moneymaker will take about $70 million...
...decision of the British people has been recorded in votes counted today. I have therefore laid down the charge which was placed upon me in darker times. I regret that I have not been permitted to finish the work against Japan. For this, however, all plans and preparations have been made and results may come much quicker than we have hitherto been entitled to expect...
Sirs: Just a few pertinent comments on your article [TIME, June 18] on "The Shape We're In." The composite figure shown as a pictorialization of how the average American girl looks with her clothes off is, I regret to say, too, too, true. . . . The daily press releases from home show that the average American shape, distaff, definitely lacks something...
General Cho had left his own epitaph: "Twenty-second day, sixth month, 20th year of Showa era. I depart without regret, fear, shame or obligation. Age on departure 51 years...
...Hollywood (Blue, 11 a.m., E.W.T.), 137 NBC stations cleared time - even to dropping local commercial programs - to carry it. Meanwhile, NBC busied itself absorbing some of the unprecedented cost by scrapping such worthy sustaining shows as the controversial Words at War ("most disquieting," rumbled the New York Times,". . . regret table in the extreme...