Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sprung from the turbulent Navy-Air Force scramble over wartime missions. The United States was the Navy's bid for a chance at the Air Force's strategic bombing role. Flourishing figures from World War II, the Navy claimed that attack carriers were not only the best way of bringing air power to bear at sea; as a movable, hit-&-run base, the supercarrier would be able to launch a surprise attack with atom bombs against any target anywhere...
...million "outhouse fund" for submarginal farms, and North Dakota's maverick Republican William Langer wanted to double it. Langer threatened to filibuster all night. As he talked, Democratic leaders huddled near him, occasionally whispering to him. In the end, he sat down assured that he would have his way. Senator Taft snapped angrily: "We all saw the deal made here on the Senate floor. There is no question that the committee bought off the filibuster by agreeing to increase the appropriation $12,500,000." Finally, in the twelfth hour of continuous debate, the Senate approved the full housing bill...
...what would the future cost be? Nobody knew. Which nations would get how much? That was up to the discretion of the President and not the countries involved. Significantly, it would be the Secretary of State and not the Secretary of Defense who would administer the law-a way of emphasizing that the arms program is primarily a diplomatic weapon in the cold...
...second or so later he was lying on the street, bleeding from five bullet wounds. He died on the way to Harlan Hospital. Sizemore and Jackson were politely arrested by the state police, jailed, and released last week on $15,000 bail; though Metcalfe's wife cried that she had seen them shoot her husband, they produced witnesses who vowed they were chatting indoors when the shooting occurred, Harlan County did not think things would go hard with them. Although killings in Harlan County (pop. 75,000) average 40 a year, only four men have been executed for murder...
Lawrence had found a way to ease its labor pains a little. Instead of laying men off, the mills furloughed men in rotation. For the weeks of furlough, each worker marched over to the unemployment office and drew unemployment pay from the state. (Except for the first layoff each year, Massachusetts does not require a waiting period.) Explained Al Bradstreet, a weaver in American Woolen's Wood mill: "I'm off one week in three. When I'm off, I get $25 plus $2 for each of the three kids. Nobody wants this...