Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...forward observation post in the south, where the stench of high explosives and of the dead defiled the delicate scent of apple blossoms, leathery, bullet-headed Marshal Ivan Konev last week briefed his commanders. He spoke of the new power of the Red Air Force and of its first function: close, devoted support of troops on the ground. Almost as he spoke, swarms of Stormomks skimmed over the apple trees to blast the German troops, gun positions and tanks...
...much wheat WFA will purchase, could be sure of two points: 1) that WFA would buy just as much wheat as necessary to hold prices firm, 2) that the Government agency, either through direct buying or commodity loans to farmers, has the market so rigged that the traditional function of futures trading will be pointless...
...seething Copenhagen, Danes with rifles and machine guns ignored the rigid curfew, fought Germans armed with tanks and planes. Next day, upwards of 15,000 joined a general strike, shut down Danish war production. Stores closed, transportation stopped, telephones and telegraphs ceased to function. Crowds tore down pictures of Hitler, made bonfires of Nazi posters, books and pamphlets. Barricades appeared along with the flags of Denmark, Britain, the U.S. and Russia. Exultant Danes mingled scraps of The Star-Spangled Banner and God Save the King with their own sonorous anthem. The second night 700 Danes were killed or wounded. Then...
...signalized a drastic reorientation in our society. It marked a real break with the past. The old voluntaristic drives, the 'rugged individualism' of both capital and labor, had lost their momentum. ... In its original impulses the New Deal was an American variant of European collectivisms - trying to function within our traditional system. Labor is at the very center of this social revolution. It furnished the mass base for the New Deal." Though he later broke with C.I.O., Dubinsky played a big part in furnishing this mass base for Franklin Roosevelt ("the greatest labor leader of them all," says...
Progress in Medicine. For patients whose high blood pressures cannot be remedied by surgery, Dr. Walter Kempner of Duke University uses a unique palliative: a low protein diet composed chiefly of rice. His reason: high-blood-pressure patients have poor kidney function and the low protein diet is easy on impaired kidneys. Doctors were incredulous. But Dr. Kempner retorted that only time would tell whether he was right, that meanwhile, so long as the diet helps his patients, he will continue...