Word: staying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Third reason for the crisis was the still-present manpower shortage. Looked at nationally, this did not seem terribly urgent: war plants were but 200,000 workers short. But the men were needed in critical spots. Accordingly, Government and Army & Navy men scurried about urging war workers to stay on their jobs, exhorting those who had left, on the crest of the September optimism, to return...
...dramatic, lightning-bolt personnel changes should strike the Administration in the next few weeks, most of Washington would be vastly surprised. Term IV orators had campaigned strenuously on the theme of keeping a war-winning "team" in office. And continuity remained the New Deal keynote. The Old Faces were staying. Political observers saw a clear pattern for the future in the President's efforts to hold the old team together. War Mobilizer Jimmy Byrnes was persuaded to stay until Germany falls; so were Chairman William H. Davis and two associates...
...peace. In the orphanage, in the Navy, in these last months of drifting, they had always subtly domineered over him. Before his wife left him, he had cut her with a razor. He was restless tonight, and lonely. Suddenly he made up his mind to get drunk and stay drunk. Before he went out he put his safety razor in his pocket. Even on a binge, he liked to stay neatly shaved...
...Allied heavies out on eleven of the first 13 days in November, destruction this month was likely to be bigger than last. The Luftwaffe may fight again, but it will be beaten again, for it can never catch up. Whether it chooses to fight or stay aground, the Luftwaffe is playing out its string in a losing game...
...insect repellent. The only treatment is good nursing care which, in one epidemic, cut deaths to 2%. In the same issue of the Bulletin, Captain Joseph Bruce Logue reported on an epidemic of 230 cases with 22 deaths. In his opinion, none of these tsutsugamushi patients were fit to stay in the combat zone, even after several weeks of light duty. He suspects that all have permanent heart damage...