Word: widespreading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week the U.S. public, in most communities, had just about lost all of its wartime resistance against black marketing. Most people seemed to be resigned to widespread violations of the price-control laws. As they did in the Prohibition era, the people now winked and smiled at lawbreaking, helped the violators along by apathy or complacency, by scrambling to buy their wares at almost any price. The black market was just about out of hand-and off the American conscience...
...another five days. If the Saginaw plant shuts down, all Chevrolet production in the Flint-Detroit area (about 38,000 workers) would stop within a week for lack of castings. Iron-foundrymen, supplying parts for autos, farm implements, housing and a long list of other scarce products, saw widespread closings only a few days off. And when they closed, hundreds of those they supplied would have to close...
Only a month of spring term remaining, this program if adopted will receive but a brief trial period before it is subject to re-approval by summer term students. Sacrifices involved are picayune compared to the widespread suffering in devastated areas throughout the world. By deliberately isolating idealism from practical action, the man who rejects unreservedly the Food Committee's proposals might well question whether all his learning is more than a mouthful of platitudes...
Giving the lie to a widespread rumor which found its way into the supplement of a local basic English magazine, gridiron coach dick Harlow matched two teams out of the spring football candidates at Soldiers Field yesterday...
...widespread use of the petition of names for purposes of nomination also has its shortcomings. More often this results in the nomination of friends and roommates of committee members than of a scattered and representative group. The institution of the direct primary as the means of nomination would end this evil. In order that certain other desirable persons be nominated, however, the house committee itself should be permitted to nominate a fixed percentage of the names appearing on the ballot...