Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both of the baesball games with Yale will be played here in a doubleheader on June 6, the Yale Athletic Association has announced. It has usually been the custom to hold one at New Haven and the second at Cambridge the following weekend, but a shift was necessitated by the accelerated academic program adopted by the Elis...
However distasteful this mass resettlement might be to the men & women involved, it made sound sense from the point of view of Soviet planning. One main objective of the third Five-Year Plan, which was scheduled to be completed this year, was to shift Russia's economic center of gravity out of bomb range of the European border. It was no easy project for peacetime, since nearly two-thirds of Russian industry was concentrated in the west. But the necessities of war cut through the difficulties. Last week's decree was doubtless issued to secure Russia...
...inevitable sequel, the Japanese air attack on the Australian mainland (see p. 16). But it had happened dizzily fast. Seeing it coming and feeling the crunch of its presence were two different things. Sweat poured from the national pores; and beneath the sweat there was a sudden profound shift in the nation's war thinking, a lurching adjustment to the fact that the waking nightmare was no dream...
Moreover, long-staple imports, chiefly from Egypt,* are not to be depended on. And if U.S. production of long-staple cotton booms (the Government is now encouraging it with special subsidies), U.S. spindles to spin it are limited, even on a three-shift basis, to a maximum of 4,000,000 Ib. a year. If all of that were spun into the best hosiery yarn, it would take care of only about 3% of the normal U.S. women's hosiery market. Furthermore, long-staple cotton has important defense uses, such as powder bags, balloons. Upshot: many a girl...
Political realists thought the President had made a political master stroke-playing the game without the name. But others, political amateurs, remembered the lesson of recent history-that voters now shift back & forth across party lines without regard to labels...