Word: waited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...redheaded stepchild. The Army-Navy joint board had not yet seen fit to revamp its pre-Pearl Harbor priorities, except to move up replacements for lost ships. Production Boss Donald Nelson had hoped that the Army & Navy would settle this row without civilian interference. He could afford to wait a bit: by arbitrary allocation of materials, the airplane industry had not really been hurt...
...after Wayne Parrish's blast, Donald Nelson could wait no longer. He jumped all aircraft materials, all materials for antiaircraft guns & parts...
China's War Minister Ho Ying-chin warned the world (see p. 18) that Japan would probably launch an attack on Russia within a month. In Chungking the official Central Daily News did a little goading: "Russia . . . should take the initiative and strike first, rather than wait to be struck...
What we say tonight has to do with blood and with bone and with anger, and also with a big job in the making. Laughter can wait. Soft music can have the evening off. No one is invited to sit down and take it easy...
P.B.H. was crowded in the morning, while Memorial Hall was used in the afternoon, especially between 2 and 3 o'clock when 80 men were waiting in line. For this reason, even though there were twenty registrars on duty in Memorial Hall, some men had to wait an hour for their turn...