Word: rigidities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...These commands were not rigid. Their missions occasionally overlapped. On some days the Strategic and Tactical Air Forces combined to attack an airfield; on others, the Strategic and Coastal Forces combined to attack Axis transport planes...
Died. Don Tomas Garrido Canabal, 52, onetime Governor of Mexico's Tabasco State (1920-35); of cancer; in Los Angeles. As Governor, he issued rigid decrees against corsets and alcohol, outlawed tombstones, ordered priests to marry. Minister of Agriculture under Cardenas in 1935, he was shortly implicated in the machine-gunning of Tabascan students, who at tempted to return from Canabalistic deportation, subsequently exiled himself from Mexico...
...liberally waved. The Dean's office must find some substitute as a warning to delinquent reservists; an intermediate step between the proctor's reproach and expulsion must be found. And on the other hand undergraduates must understand that University rules cannot be relaxed because military standards are rigid. The fact that the consequences of probation are often severe is no reason for its application to be abandoned. Abuse can be avoided only if both Deans and students are aware of the dangers of irresponsible action...
...advanced the pay of glaziers at the Oklahoma City aircraft assembly plant from 90? to $1.25 per hour-an increase of 38.9% WLB argues that such increases were contemplated when the War Labor Board was set up, that the Little Steel formula was not meant to be a rigid standard. But unveiling the huge building-trade wage raises put WLB and the Administration on the spot. The New Deal still seemed to have no real labor policy...
Though it makes use of gold, the Keynes plan is not a return to a rigid gold standard. One reason: many nations are now practically stripped of gold, and international exchange of goods cannot await its redistribution. Another: many an expert believes that exchange rates should be subject to revision without the disasters which ensue when nations are forced "off" gold...