Word: acceptably
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
What I have to tell you below is of such a highly secret nature that I feel compelled to ask you either to accept it on the basis of your not communicating its contents to any other person and returning this letter or not reading any further and returning the letter to the bearer...
...witness stand stepped Lieut. General Leonard T. Gerow, chief of the Army's War Plans Division in 1941, to accept full blame for one of Pearl Harbor's most egregious errors. On Nov. 27, a sharp warning of impending hostilities had gone out from General Marshall to Lieut. General Walter C. Short in Hawaii. On Nov. 28, General Short replied that he had ordered an alert against sabotage-which was like saying he had a butterfly net ready for a tiger. Yet his reply was never challenged by Washington...
Explained General Gerow: he thought the Short message was an answer to other communications. Said he: "If there is any responsibility in the War Department for failure ... I accept that responsibility...
...strike leaders had other worries. Some 8,500 other U.A.W. workers had gone back to work after a month's sympathy strike. The Canadian Congress of Labor barred Dominion-wide sympathy walkouts. There was a developing union split over a previous refusal to accept arbitration. And many felt that even a well-organized, well-supported strike could drag on too long...
...said Britain, must accept the principle that the International Air Transport Association, recently formed by the airlines of some 24 nations, shall fix minimum international fares. Until Pan Am agrees to this principle, it can fly to London only twice a week, even at $375. Pan Am refused to agree to I.A.T.A.'s rule, planned a trick play...