Word: destroyer
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...Those tending to destroy honest collective bargaining, such as some jurisdictional disputes...
Charges of NDMB's partiality to labor cannot be supported by fact. The Board is unwilling to let either side use the emergency to advance, or destroy, labor gains. It has generally opposed any kind of closed shop and has made that point clear in negotiations, as many a union chief will attest...
...knew how much of Russia the Russians were destroying in their retreat. Some Russian experts felt sure that most Soviet peasants would not destroy their farms unless forced to; that the warfare, centering around main roads, would leave vast tracts of Russia in apparent peace (from the air, reporters had seen such areas behind the German advance); that the scorching of the Russian earth, sluiced by many streams, wetted by many rains, would be difficult in any case. Anyone could guess that if the Russian High Command surrendered or fled, most Russian self-destruction would cease...
...tons of available shipping could transport between 100,000 and 200,000 men, with their equipment, across 2.800 miles of the China Sea, a landing on Borneo might be successful. But the oil wells of Borneo were prepared for instant destruction, and the Dutch have sworn to destroy them if need be. Java, citadel of the Indies defense, held the bulk of an Army of 100,000 (native and European), the bulk of the new Air Force, old but fixed coastal defenses, an arsenal. And Sumatra was just as tough, with one half sheltered by Malaya, the other half lying...
...victory of the Nazi power would destroy any kind of tolerable form of human government...