Word: uncertainities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...members of the National Association of Manufacturers trooped into Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria hotel last week, the passwords were War & Reconversion. But as they sat down to breakfast, the first meeting of their 49th annual convention, they were told, in no uncertain terms, that the only job of U.S. industry now is war, not peace...
...keen to get on with its sales job. Delay in declaring a plant surplus can lessen its sales value, as labor moves away from a plant with an uncertain future. So DPC is now negotiating on a conditional basis for the sale or lease of more than 70 plants, has issued descriptive brochures on 125 others. Most encouraging, DPC is ready to lease the plants, in whole or part, make loans big enough to cover the entire purchase price. Credit will be "liberal," to make certain that as many plants as possible are used postwar...
...first the German artist was unwilling to give up his profitable business in sea creatures for the new and uncertain field of flowers. Finally, however, the Blaschkas sent several samples of their work to Cambridge for a closer inspection of their possibilities. Although almost all were destroyed at the New York Customs House, enough remained to convince Professor Goodale of their excellence...
...Angeles jury found Courtney Rogers guilty of murder. But while he waited for death, the California Supreme Court announced it was legally uncertain whether Courtney's mother & father might not have died, respectively, by self-inflicted chloroform and accident. Exhumed, grandmother's body contained no arsenic. Last week, at Courtney's third trial, the judge threw the case out of court. Courtney Rogers had repudiated all his admissions: "I told as many lies as I could to make them think I was insane...
...conspire and ultimately revolt against the dominant classes in their respective countries. The promise was that when the socialist organization of abundance was complete, the totalitarian state would dissolve of its own superfluousness in a new kind of classless democracy. To most Americans and western Europeans this was the uncertain ideal, dictatorship, the inescapable fact...