Word: delayed
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Last week Franklin Roosevelt vetoed the Logan-Walter bill in scorching words. Reasons: it would hamper national defense, flood the courts with unnecessary litigation, subject all administrative action to control of the judiciary, produce only delay, chaos, paralysis. He concluded: "Today, in sustaining American ideals of justice, an ounce of action is worth more than a pound of argument...
Walter Reuther said: "Normal methods can build all the planes we need-if we can wait until 1942 and 1943 to get them. But the need for planes is immediate and terrifying. We dare not invite the disaster which may come with further delay...
...Ternstedt) which had recently laid off skilled workers or put them at unskilled labor, declared that not more than half the industry's total capacity was actually at work. He also assumed that individual auto-makers would have to be compelled to pool their resources and talents, perhaps delay their own new models while 12,000 to 15,000 tool-&-die makers worked on equipment for aircraft production...
...Indiantown Gap. Pa. a camp for 20.000 men was pitched on rock and shale, where well-digging was slow and inordinately expensive. Result: a month's delay. In New England, where an abundance of lumber could be salvaged from hurricane-felled trees, camp constructions waited for lumber from the Pacific Coast (where lumbermen last week settled a ten-week strike, averting further delays). Contractors working for cost-plus-fixed-fees could afford to snatch labor from nearby rivals who had lump-sum contracts, thus delaying construction at other camps and highlighting the lack of a planned labor supply...
...clay model of one section, niggled, quibbled, haggled, ordered materials only to change his mind after the requisitions had become entangled in WPA red tape. At one time he planned to cut the frieze in stone, get it financed by private sponsors. Last March, because of the delay, the local art project felt it necessary to fire Sculptor Bufano...