Word: valueless
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...farmers give up only as much as they please to the German collectors-mostly simple villagers-and exchange the rest on the black market for commodities, rather than for nearly valueless marks. German officials, who are careful, for political reasons, not to antagonize the farmers, have no means of compelling deliveries even if they wanted to. Said one observer: "The German policemen are hungry...
Logic alone would call the procedure ridiculous, for a fact-finding body is valueless unless the parties being investigated agree at the start to accept the philosophy of the committee and realize that any argument with its decisions can come only on the basis of neglect or misuse of the facts. Neither the cynical buck-passing of Prime Minister Attlee nor the hysterical Arabian harangues have dealt with the facts presented in the investigation; the complaints of Zionists and President Truman's spineless praise have been just as blissfully uncognizant of the realities of the present situation...
...increasing and even deep down in the cellar we could feel concussions shaking the building. The conference finally broke up in indecision. I was ordered to leave Berlin with my stenographic reports but my partner was to remain. He pointed out that in that case the reports were valueless, because if he stayed no one would be able to transcribe his records, and without his, mine would be incomplete. Bormann then ordered us both to leave that evening by plane...
...Nazi command-not Aachen's 20,000 unevacuated civilians- quickly answered the first question. It chose certain destruction of the city rather than surrender a point that had become tactically valueless. But the High Command could not so quickly make up its mind about the second and more important question...
...example, Studebaker Corp. "predetermined" one contract, found that $1,061,000 worth of materials would be valueless except as scrap when the contract is ended. Studebaker offered to buy the materials for $15,590. Come actual cancellation, Studebaker will simply send in its check, move the materials aside so as to lose no time shifting to auto production. Estimated time saved: 30 days...