Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Corporation will impound all war-material surpluses-machinery, tools, raw materials, even military and naval camps, barracks and flying fields-in one tremendous reservoir. Sales will be controlled. The trick will be to release material slowly enough to avoid a market glut and unemployment, fast enough to prevent equipment's becoming obsolete...
...simply incorporate Eastern and Central Europe instead of monkeying around with a reverse cordon sanitaire? The answers may be that:1) such a drastic action might endanger the U.S.S.R.'s relation with Britain and the U.S., and might even precipitate a war, which Russia would do anything to avoid; 2) the Russians know how to organize disorganized territories, prefer to let the small States run themselves in a stable (i.e., a proSoviet...
Lippmann does not condemn treaty clauses, but thinks an ounce of good example is worth a pound of law. Said he: "Our own best contribution to the great cause of freedom of the press will be to avoid any self-righteous assumption that we here have achieved freedom of the press in its perfected and final form. We have not. . . . The more convincingly we show that the freedom we enjoy produces good results, promoting the saving truth rather than debasing public sentiment, the more we shall serve the cause of the freedom of the press...
Seventy-Two for Five. Again & again that night Jap planes lashed down. U.S. ships flailed back with heavy fire, zigzagged to avoid torpedoes. When the attacks ceased, after 24 hours of raid and counter-raid, the announced score stood: 72 Jap planes destroyed; five U.S. planes lost, one U.S. warship slightly damaged. (For a notable picture of one of the Jap planes going down...
...attitude of its newly elected president, Robert M. Gaylord, who heads Rockford, Ill.'s small Ingersoll Milling Machine Co. Early-bird reporters flocking to N.A.M.'s press room caught his easy reply to a worried Old Guard trying to coach him on how to avoid "embarrassing questions." "They can't ask me any embarrassing questions," said Bob Gaylord blandly. Nor could they...