Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many of the young British hopefuls are none too happy about the Air Corps methods. Typical gripe: "Men are eliminated in quick succession and at the present rate only half the men will have won their spurs when this Overseas Training scheme comes to an end. . . . Time is being wasted, for there's no doubt that the majority of the eliminated cadets will take the whole course again either in Canada or at a training school under R.A.F. supervision...
...year took one thousand rejectees and found that 850 could pass as one hundred per cent fit for military service after twelve months of medical and dental care supplemented by open air, exercise, and adequate food. A similar program should be developed from the president's as yet nebulous scheme...
...aluminum, saw "no foreseeable peacetime market" for magnesium, wanted these brave new plants scrapped. Mr. Marlio was also discouraging on the subject of post-war "national [industry] councils" to be set up for planning purposes. "I have seen the same thing in Italy," he said. "At the beginning . . . the scheme was good and very liberal . . . but after two years the Government representative was head of the industry...
Judge Shinn threw out the most sensational charges: that Consolidated was organized as a fraudulent scheme to sell part of Hearst's property at an excessive price; that Hearst had charged it too much for goods and services from his newsprint and news-feature companies; that Consolidated was forced to pay Hearst's salary (once $500,000 a year) although he spent just as much time in behalf of his private interests; that in general Consolidated had been forced to. pay the freight for the Hearst empire. The court absolved Hearst, his companies and the Consolidated directors...
...This odd scheme marks the end of a four-month fight between Leon Henderson and the cotton mills, is one of the biggest pieces of humble pie Leon has yet eaten. When he fixed his original textile ceiling, Henderson had his eye on cotton speculators (among them the mills), overlooked the fact that in the long run prices of cotton and cotton goods go together like Mutt & Jeff. Before the revisions, the basic goods ceiling was 43?. But this price was set in July when cotton was 1-2? cheaper than it has been since. Thus for months the cotton...