Word: skirmished
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Physicists will never be happy until they take the atom completely apart. Most of them already consider the atom bomb just a frontier skirmish. Last week they gathered at the University of California to discuss the big topic in nuclear physics: subatomic particles. To the American Physical Society, U.S. atom-busters described carefully laid plans for further busting...
...krona from 23.82 U.S. cents to 27.77 cents, a 14% increase. Both nations were guessing that the U.S. would have 10 to 14% more inflation than it now has. There were reports that Argentina, and several other nations, would soon revalue their currencies also. In short, a first skirmish of a new currency war, such as had killed off world trade in the early '30s, had taken place...
...last week nervously witnessed the first post-OPA skirmish between supply & demand. It started briskly. The New York Journal of Commerce commodity index rose 8.9 points to a new high of 129.1. But there was relatively little scrambling for merchandise by retailers, consumers and wholesalers. The market seemed not so much free as bewildered. In general, businessmen waited to see whether OPA was really dead (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...Stars and Stripes. The censorship was called off, Major Kestler would stay. Colonel Clark promised that the newspaper would operate "in consonance with the highest standards of American journalism and the Army. . . ." Whether their war with the brass was over or not, staffers figured they had won a skirmish...
...held up a Montevideo concert for half an hour while ushers gathered up programs which said his real name was Stokes.* Once the silver-haired maestro walked out on the Mexico Symphony Orchestra after a fuss-&-feathers over an incomplete orchestration. Last week in Cuba, Stokie was in another skirmish with Latin Americans...