Word: shifted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...smile on their own countrymen, Thorez is up; when they are ordered to show their fangs, he is down. He was down last week, but since, as secretary general, he was still the titular head of the French party, he was instructed to read a statement embodying the latest shift in the party line-a statement he had had no hand in preparing...
Dean Griswold announced that the proceedings will shift back to the State House tomorrow...
...development and organization of the new oil fields have already taken place under state ownership. Such a change as is proposed by the administration would disrupt the whole system and delay the development of the area until a new federal agency could be organized with an experienced personnel. The shift in ownership would also cause a tremendous number of legal disputes. This argument adds up to the statement that a removal of tideland ownership from the states would involve a great loss to the economy as a whole and a delay in the development of important oil resources. Since there...
...Single Shift. The power shortage was born during the war, when private utilities had to cancel their expansion programs. It became worse under the demands of the postwar boom. Not only did private industry step up its power consumption by 13%, but householders increased their demands with the installation of new washing machines, television sets, and a dozen other electrical gadgets that they had not been able to buy before...
...seven years, the utility companies have added 6,000,000 customers to their service, and have almost doubled the total amount of current they feed to all consumers. On top of that, industry has changed from three shifts a day, which spread the load, to the single shift, which concentrates it at one time. The result has been that most companies now have only a 4% emergency reserve of power...