Word: rigidities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...safari had as its objective the testing of special food provided by the Fatigue Lab for the Army Quartermaster Corps, and sleeping bags, air mattresses, and tents for the Alpine division of the Army. Although bad weather and poor climbing conditions harried the expedition, the Army equipment met the rigid test...
...rigid Filipino U.S. Army sergeant stood guard outside the hotel room. Manuel Quezon posed for photographers, told newsmen: "When war began I said the Philippines will stand by the United States until the bitter end. Thank God the fact proves I was right." He said little more. A hacking, tuberculous cough interrupted his every word. How did he feel about Bataan and Corregidor? Manuel Quezon leaned wearily back in a deep, red chair, closed his eyes and murmured huskily: "I am proud...
...ceilings by both Britain (to the tune of ?125,000,000 a year) and Canada ($2,000,000 since last December). And OPA planned to go easy: Deputy Administrator Kenneth Galbraith told Manhattan clothing manufacturers last week that subsidies were "a last resort"; hard-pressed manufacturers must first practice "rigid, ruthless economy...
...Spigelman, means two things: 1) ballooning costs keep war production from reaching its real peak; 2) after the war, "a mighty alliance of all the incompetents" will demand continued Government protection for uneconomic wartime habits. If this comes to pass, the U.S. will find itself in "the most rigid and closed of socialisms . . . a tyranny of collective incompetence at least as disastrous as the nineteenth century tyranny of unbridled competence...
...collegiate pride and a rigid budget have blocked the plan's adoption. The desire for a successful intercollegiate record emerges when the proposal for service games is mentioned. At other colleges, including Princeton, Swarthmore, and Fordham, a different attitude prevails, for their teams have already played Army athletes. Less flexible is the problem of expenses. The cost of trips to Army camps and of umpires and equipment for home games would unbalance an already strained budget. To fill the gap the Athletic Department has asked the Corporation for a supplementary grant...