Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...test of Republican sentiment, the list of signers to Willkie's manifesto was inconclusive. As a move in the struggle to shift Republican policy away from Isolationism, it promised to be historic. Said Pundit Arthur Krock: "[Willkie] had been marching so long and obediently in the President's foreign policy column . . . that those at the head no longer kept an eye on him. . . . What, therefore, was the surprise and embarrassment of the Generalissimo and his staff when the follower dashed in front of the leader with a following of his own. . . . Mr. Willkie struck at the President...
...feet), her broad beam (119 feet), she has plenty of space for a fine flight deck. Her two working stacks (the third is a dummy) are both fed by flues that run up her sides to her topdeck. It would be a simple job of reconstruction to shift the funnels to the sides. Her four main passenger elevators are grouped in one big shaftway...
With the CIO elections at Fore River postponed until November 22, the Liberal Union will shift its campaigning forces to the job of selling Plan E to the citizens of Cambridge before and during the election next Tuesday...
Many a Junior or Senior is anxious to know what college work will best prepare him for an impending career in the army or in the government. Although Professor Casner has advised no one to change his field of concentration or to shift into Medicine or Engineering, he has counseled many students on the courses and extra-curricular activities which provide back-ground for various defense occupations...
...Saturday night, after Civilian Defense Chief Fiorello LaGuardia had described the new 50.000 watt transmitter's insurance against wartime interruption (if power lines fail, it can run on its own generator, pick up the studio by micro-wave), the shift was made from WABC's old antennae near Wayne...