Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Improvements in service and equipment Jeffers could understand, but he had no patience with luxury for de luxe sake. When Board Chairman W. Averell Harriman proposed the U.P.'s skiing resort at Sun Valley, Idaho, Jeffers said disgustedly: "The only thing I ever did with snow was to shovel it the hell off the track. Now you want to play with...
...hand to help him aboard. He wanted to cooperate fully in the search, he said; he was on 'his way to bypassed, isolated Wake Island 300 miles to the south, to evacuate 960 sick and 14 wounded Jap soldiers. He offered his visitors coffee, tea, cider, sake and whiskey-all declined by the Americans...
...Cure. For the sake of a peaceful Europe, says he, Germany must be weak. And it must be dismembered, perhaps occupied for a generation, stripped of many industries, educationally reformed by the victors, thickly sown with intelligence officers watching for any signs of V-102. Nor can Germany be reshaped merely by putting "democratic" German elements in power. "The German Right are undoubtedly the bloodiest men that have ever defiled the earth. ... I insist upon their being totally liquidated as a political party or force. ... I prefer the German Left. I am not, however, fool enough to take the German...
...G.I.s, 90% of them combat men, finally gave the Senators a message for home: "For heaven's sake tell them to stop proposing new payments and bonuses to soldiers. Tell them we would be willing to pay them to get out of the Army...
...establish this labor market is by judicious Government spending and by reducing taxes, but there should be no spending for spending's sake...