Word: waits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...already included $60 a month for voyages into belligerent waters, $45 to $75 for each particularly dangerous port of call. The Commission's idea was to figure out a scale based on war-risk hull insurance rates. But A.F. of L. seamen along the East Coast would not wait for the Commission to finish its arithmetic. In defiance of the Commission's warning, and in violation of their contracts, they struck...
...there was a new kind of waiting. In the steel mills one had to wait for pig iron, and for manganese to make iron into steel. Machine shops waited for springs, needles, essential minutiae. At some of the stores one had to wait days for electric-light bulbs. During the lunch hour speakers from the intellectuals explained, but did not end, these waits. "One must remember," they said with their statistics, "that we lost 60% of our iron production when the Fascists took Krivoi Rog. We lost 45% of our manganese at Nikopol. At Leningrad 49% of our tire industry...
...Errol Flynn as a Harvard-Hopkins-Cambridge graduate is pretty and occasionally (three times to be exact) is amusing. Fred MacMurray and his two he-man buddies after razzing and then getting to like Flynn, M.D., all die in crashes. We hoped that Flynn did, too, but didn't wait...
However, neither organization would predict last night whether it would be willing to work or unite with the Student Union. Officers of the Liberal Union and the Defense League declared that they would wait for a definite offer from the H.S.U. before they decide on policy...
...added: "When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck before you crush him." He cited precedents: Presidents John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, each of whom had ordered the U.S. Navy to stamp out piracy. This act, said he, "is no act of war on our part ... is solely defense." Then he came to the reason for the speech: "But let this warning be clear...