Word: scraps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Josephus Daniels, of North Carolina and the Navy, is 84. He still loves a good scrap and the old Democratic Party, still hates booze, wicked women and the late Admiral William S. Sims. He has been working away at his memoirs for years. Tar Heel Editor (TIME, Dec. 25, 1939) was Vol. I of the series. Vol. IV. The Wilson Era: Years of War and After, covers the period from...
...plan would 1) elevate the Federal Security Agency to Cabinet status; 2) lump all Government housing under one agency; 3) abolish the office of U.S. High Commissioner to the Philippines (July 4 is Philippine independence day); 4) scrap the NLRB function of conducting strike ballots; 5) transfer the jobs-for-vetefans function from Selective Service to the U.S. Employment Service; 6) transfer the Office of Contract Settlement to OWMR...
...schedule of new transatlantic air fares drawn up by the International Air Transport Association last February became a scrap of paper last week. The Civil Aeronautics Board, which has the final word for U.S. airlines, refused to approve...
...pressure behind the underground was recognized this week by the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry on Palestine. After three months of study in the U.S., Europe and the Near East, the twelve-man committee recommended, in effect, a new policy that would scrap the 1939 British White Paper. Salient points: 1) the immediate admission of 100,000 Eufopean Jews into Palestine; 2) Jewish D.P.s are a responsibility of all the nations; 3) terrorism by Jews or Arabs must be sternly repressed...
...lifted and with production of civilian goods at an all-time high, 12 more months of price control would assure an orderly distribution of new goods at existing prices. The twin battles of production and inflation are nearly won, yet manufacturers and farmers, in their greed, are willing to scrap national safety and welfare in a frantic last minute rush for profits...