Word: segments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would end short of its goal. If it does, there will be double defeat, physical defeat in the non-performance of essential services, both in the Community Fund agencies of Greater Boston and in the national work of the Red Cross, moral defeat in the failure of one segment of the American people to meet the first serious task brought to them by this war. Everyone is talking about war sacrifice. Here is the chance to make a start...
...Three cigaret companies (American, Liggett & Myers, Reynolds), convicted seven weeks ago of monopoly and conspiracy in restraint of trade (TIME, Nov. 3), were sentenced last week by a Federal judge in Lexington, Ky. Nobody will go to jail. But the judge's decision put a large segment of U.S. business on notice: competitors who do not use price as a weapon may be "conspiring" to fix prices even if they never actually meet to do so. To a great many lawyers, this is something new under the Sherman Act. One defense counsel called it the "Thurman...
...important manufacturing centres elsewhere in this area would make the northeastern states an inviting target for enemy attacks. As a result, it is to the best interest of the nation that every preparation be made for an all-out civilian defense effort, which will require cooperation from every segment of the population...
Next, two telephoning girls broke into a news program to discuss a change in plans, necessitated by the fact that one of their boy friends had walked out in a pet. Segment of the unabashed conversation...
...been relegated to oblivion or death: Hero Italo Balbo to the Governor Generalship of Libya and then to mysterious death in his airplane; Soldiers Pietro Badoglio and Rodolfo Graziani to retirement; Loudmouthpiece Roberto Farinacci to an unknown fate in Albania. Each of these men possessed great influence over some segment of the Italian people, from royalty to hoi polloi. With the purging of Starace, Benito Mussolini had cut himself even more adrift from connection with the 43,500,000 Italian people...