Word: soberly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have learned to take such things well salted. Now, the booming light-plane in dustry is trying to sell planes, through department stores, to those who were never interested in them before. Were the planemakers and stores playing on the ignorance of their customers, overselling their wares? Many a sober booster of private flying was sure that was the case. Last week, at the third annual National Aviation Clinic in Oklahoma City, they said...
...kidnapping scare swept Mexico City. Rumormongers said that Mexican ninos were being stolen wholesale and sold to wives of returning U.S. soldiers. In some unexplained fashion, the patter of little brown feet was supposed to make the returning husbands happy. Sober El Universal suspected a "premeditated effort to provoke state collective unrest." Many fingers pointed at Acción National and other anti-administration, anti-U.S. groups...
...foreign policy more weight than they had been accorded in the U.S. : "We should now make it clear to the United States that we will march at their side in the cause that President Truman has defined, that we will add our strength to their strength, that their stern, sober efforts shall be matched by our own. If everything else fails, which we must not admit, here is the best chance of survival...
Never before had so many Palestinian Jews sympathized with the guerrillas. Even the sober Palestine Post affirmed that Jews had gone over "from defensive to offensive action." But Britain was bitter. Secretary Hall bluntly warned Palestine's Jews that they could expect no help from London if violence was to be their policy. Hall also announced that Palestine's mild-mannered High Commissioner, Field Marshal Viscount Gort, had resigned because of "ill health." Gort actually was ill, but his resignation increased the tension...
...National Association of Manufacturers, nine chosen by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, eight delegates from A.F. of L., eight from C.I.O., one each from the United Mine Workers and Railroad Brotherhoods. Their chairman, chosen by mutual consent, will be North Carolina's Judge Walter Parker Stacy, a sober and fair-minded arbiter of many a past labor dispute...