Word: resorted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the obstructors of the war effort use R. R. Express and find other means to continue their activities which are so blatantly injurious, it is bad enough. But when they resort to physical violence--and get away with it under the eyes of the law--the situation is alarming. The Hansen incident and his attacker's sources of support, both on and off the scene, show that Social Justice is clearly seditious. When Biddle relieved the postman he certainly did not intend a policeman to take up the task...
Production. For over a year the Churchill Government has faced a heavy barrage from the Left on the question of production. As a last resort Oliver Lyttelton was recalled from Cairo to replace Lord Beaverbrook, and last week he formed a Joint War Production Staff to "clamp together" the needs of the three fighting services...
Although the Brown bill has considerable sentiment behind it, it has to run a gantlet of committees and perhaps face Administration opposition. Secretary Morgenthau has said he does not want to resort to compulsory savings until he has had time to see whether non-compulsory (sale of defense bonds) will supply the Government's needs. But he may come around. Defense-bond sales were $1,075,000,000 in January, $711,000,000 in February, dropped to a monthly rate of $580,000,000 in the first 23 days of March...
...second engineer had good reason to be bitter. His false teeth and his ship, equally cherished, were on the Atlantic's bottom, tantalizingly close to the Jersey coast. The lights of a Jersey beach resort had silhouetted the merchantman for the Axis submarine that sent three torpedoes crashing into her. Griped oldster (58) James Robertson...
With only two horror cases in six years to cite, SEC's testimony before Congress made Wall Street scream about manufactured bids for more power. Ganson Purcell calls this charge "the obvious resort of anybody who wants to undermine our efforts to perfect the powers we have...