Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...change their editorial attitude they would be barred from all official news sources-a penalty which would virtually put any Washington newspaperman out of business. On the surface the action looked like an attempt to suppress criticism of the conduct of the war-something far beyond the legitimate function of a military censorship...
...best it is the agency whereby a nation's minds are able to communicate with its people. Little, Brown's conservatism does not mean editorial stuffiness, but a high sense of a permanent intellectual function. Says the firm's centennial booklet, with no trace of self-consciousness: "Democracy will survive in America and with it Little, Brown...
Taking their ethics from their customers (jalopy dealers care chiefly for looks and price) some retreaders had used inferior rubber, put it on with substandard equipment. Yet they always had an important economic function, too. Fleet owners, taxi and trucking companies know that retreads cost only half as much as new tires (they use only 40% as much rubber) and give 75-80% as much wear. Moreover, a good tire may be renewed more than once. Fleet business had made a few retread concerns profitable long before the war. But war means a boom for all 4,500 of them...
Giving all its funds to the Defense Service Committee, the Committee Against Military Intervention formally voted to disband last night, after the executive council had advised the action last Thursday when the declaration of war against Germany and Italy removed the group's sole function...
...Pearl Harbor got past this week's raids with little damage done to shops, drydocks and fuel storage, the Fleet can still function in force, minus only the striking power of ships and aircraft lost to bombs and torpedoes. But if Pearl Harbor is grievously damaged, the Fleet, or large units of it, may be forced to pull back to the Pacific Coast...