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Word: unjust (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...policy is unnecessary, unjust, and unfair. It appears to be a hidden attempt to cover future deficits by current profits, a wartime tactic for which some of the nation's business men have been publicly attacked...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Another Pound of Flesh | 7/3/1942 | See Source »

...each man's final decision. Much has happened since that unfortunate masquerade portraying President Conant as marching the student body off to the wars at the point of a bayonet. Each attack and defeat in the intervening year has shown how far-sighted our President was then, and how unjust were the charges leveled against...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: E for Effort | 4/30/1942 | See Source »

...great wartime solution, proposed occasionally for 20 years and passionately for two years by Baruch, was simply to proclaim at any random date that the price, wage and profit levels existing on that day constitute the final ceilings. Where these ceilings were unjust, adjustments would be made later. If such a level had been proclaimed two years ago, says Baruch, a billion arguments, frustrations, delays and inequities would have been saved the U.S.-not to mention billions of taxpayers' dollars in the rising costs of everything, from butter to guns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: President's Week, Mar. 23, 1942 | 3/23/1942 | See Source »

...that total net income from all sources between May 13, 1934 (the day it started flying) and Nov. 30, 1941 was $3,993,272 -only $177,416 more than the "excessive" mail pay charged by CAB. Snapped the airline: "The rates ordered by CAB are . . . unfair, unreasonable and unjust . . . [they] stifle opportunity . . .penalize initiative and enterprise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Bad News for American | 3/23/1942 | See Source »

...were back in 1937, Wall Street and SEC last week belabored each other with adjectives. A lawyer named Twombly said SEC was "unjust, unfair, un-American." SEC replied by exhuming the ghost of Dick Whitney. A new war had started over how to keep the peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WALL STREET: Back to Philadelphia | 2/9/1942 | See Source »

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