Word: directness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...result of experiences during four months of war . . . Marshal Goring is taking over the direct management of war economy through the Economic General Staff. . . . The Ministries, with their respective Cabinet Ministers, are being reduced to purely routine administrative functions. ... A more substantial war loan is expected to be floated soon, presumably next month. . . . The attempt at the start of the war to introduce a deflationary policy by lowering wages and prices and extending working hours met such resistance in practice that it had to be largely abandoned. . . . The eight-hour day had to be restored. . . . Furthermore, while the slogan...
...Benjamin Frank Miller of Chicago's Zoller Memorial Dental Clinic reported that fluorine killed the bacteria which breed in mouth acids (lactobacilli), cause tooth decay. In addition, said Dr. Joseph F. Volker of the University of Rochester, fluorine enters into direct chemical combination with the teeth, strengthens them against decay...
...Russia failed to do anything important with its superior navy. Swedish dispatches claimed the Finns had scored a direct hit on the Ortizabrskaya-Revolutia (October Revolution) when it tried to shell Koivisto. On Lake Laatokka the Finnish submarine Saukko continued to harass troop transports...