Word: shunt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jesse Jones culminated the biggest undercover political battle which Washington has seen in many a year. From the very day of election, Franklin Roosevelt's biggest political debt was to Henry Wallace and the C.I.O.'s Political Action Committee, whose hero he is. All efforts to shunt Wallace aside in the Department of Labor came to nothing. Wallace supporters felt that, politically speaking, he would be wasting his time there. Wallace could have what he wanted; what he wanted was Commerce and the lending agencies, with their titanic power in the U.S. economy. His party leader paid...
...that problem Baruch and Hancock are now training their artillery. They hope to work out a plan to let the contractor shunt the equipment out immediately after his contracts are canceled. He may store it at his own risk. Other such knotty problems will be taken up in the same step-by-step fashion. The step that had been taken to unwind the U.S. war machine was a small step-but the important fact was that it had been taken...
Readers hoped they never found out who the officers were; but they also hoped the Army would find out pronto, and shunt them and their like right out of their swivel chairs-if not to limbo, to some spot where they could not risk soldiers' lives or the national security...
...Army's new, huge (14,735-acre) Elwood shell-loading plant near Joliet, Ill. In 35 guard stations, 19 guard automobiles, five fire stations and five fire-department squad cars, installation of two-way radio communication is complete. The nine diesel-electric locomotives that are beginning to shunt explosives around on Elwood's 100 miles of track needed, since normal AM reception would be impossible for them, a further refinement. First of these locomotives-and probably the first anywhere-had been equipped last week with a frequency-modulation receiver, loudspeaker and hand phone...
Traditional British method of disposing of extra sons is to shunt them into the Army or Church, or ship them off to the colonies. Since December 1936, the most superfluous British extra son has been the Duke of Windsor, whose position as liaison officer between the British and French Armies fizzled out before the capitulation of France, and who has never indicated ecclesiastical leanings. Last week Britain announced that he would be shipped to one of her tiniest colonies. The fourth King-Emperor of the British Empire will, as Governor of the Bahamas, rule 29 islands, 661 cays...