Word: basically
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...with scissors and paste, put in a few ideas of his own and laid the result before the Senate. His omnibus bill was a clumsy-looking vehicle. Nevertheless it moved. It moved along the path of recent court opinions which found Communism a clear and present danger, branded the basic aims of Communism as criminal in intent. It was aimed at Communists and their organizations and fronts, requiring them to register the names of their members and label their propaganda for what it was. President Truman said that he would veto it as an infringement of civil rights...
...perfected a thin hardwood veneer as flexible as cloth, turned out a wall covering that cannot be distinguished from solid paneling. They even turned out plywood pipe, got $5,000,000 worth of orders for it in World War II as a light, portable radar mast. Of the 20 basic plywood and related products now sold by Ottinger, the newer ones include plywood office doors as fireproof as steel, and tabletops which cigarettes cannot...
Jordan cannot hope to accomplish any miracles between now and December. He inherits a group which is inexperienced (15 members of the tentative 37-man varsity squad are sophomores, 12 are lettermen), which is seriously lacking in depth, and which Jordan claims is very weak in fundamentals and basic football knowledge...
...BASIC COURSE...
Harrison, who was unofficially named for his job four weeks ago, had no sooner been sworn in this week as administrator than he began preparing his first two orders: 1) a basic priority which will give military contracts precedence over non-military orders in any U.S. plant; 2) an inventory control order to prevent hoarding, by forbidding companies from buying more than normal supplies of materials...