Word: unexpectedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ever since June of 1941, when Russia became an unexpected ally, the U.S. has stepped gingerly around the great diplomatic complications, has spoken of it in doubletalk, has tried to pretend none existed. The British have signed a 20-year Treaty of Alliance with Russia.
On Burt Wheeler's Interstate Commerce Committee, he showed unexpected talents as an investigator of railroad high shenanigans. (He and canny Burt Wheeler are still good friends, despite their schism on foreign policy.) But this was too esoteric an assignment to impress many voters back home. They saw him...
In short, it seems that high authorities have predicted an April induction, and perhaps one of even later date. The explanation for this unexpected delay is that it has been made necessary to extend negotiations between the Army and the Business school in respect to the details of maintaining the...
First break for Bob Young came when MOP security holders voted on the ICC plan and more than one-third of them turned it down. Meanwhile Young proposed four MOP directors and saw them elected. Then he convinced potent Massachusetts Investors Trust and some of the smaller insurance companies that...
When Leon Henderson headed the Office of Price Administration, he fought hard against sprung rationing-rationing of a single commodity announced overnight without suitable preparation of the public. Last week, as buyers smarting under the sudden shoe rationing order rushed to buy clothes for fear of an unexpected new order...