Word: segments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...peace offer to another large segment of industry, OPA plans to lower price ceilings for new manufacturers of such items as toasters, lawn mowers and fountain pens below those of established makers. Now, new manufacturers often have ceilings outrageously out of line. In some cases, they were set 150% above those of established companies, in the weird belief that this would spur production. Instead, old manufacturers simply stopped unprofitable production, and the shortages became worse than they had ever been before...
...comes as a shock that a segment of the public . . . [is] campaigning noisily against universal training. . . . Okay, mother. Okay, professor. Okay, parson. But are you willing to take the consequences, if you lead us into World...
...That still left 6.5 million people with no jobs. But MacGowan & Co. guestimated that a deduction of 3.5 million could be made for those who will still be in the armed services. The three million remaining will be the "floating labor" force-not an alarming number considering the great segment of labor that is constantly, but usually temporarily, out of work due to job shifts or seasonal changes in employment demands...
After the Fact. There was no immediate explanation why the official news was held up. Downing Street was mum; the White House was coy and confused. Best guess was that Joe Stalin had held up the joint announcement either because: 1) his Ukrainian armies still faced a small segment of determined Nazis in Moravia, or 2) he was not yet ready to set off Russia's victory celebration. Finally, from London, came word that the official announcement would come the following day. Thus, for the history books, May 8, 1945, became...
nation's first and most outstanding antiprohibitionists and a large segment of voters kept their eyes on him. As a politician, he had an unhappy faculty for backing the loser: the Kaiser until World War I, Harding until the oil scandals, the early Mussolini who made the trains run on time. Despite his good words for academic freedom, students and teachers often denounced his conservative leanings. Since World War II began, Dr. Butler has been comparatively silent on extracurricular matters. In the house at 60 Morningside Drive which Columbia has built around him, and around which he has built...