Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...contract is supposed to represent a balance of interests between two parties. Today there is no balance in the arrangements between workers and those whose function in the economy is to create work. The most important factor in the elements causing the lack of balance is the short sighted policy of the government which behaves as if all employers were the natural enemies of all who are employed. . . . This is a monstrous fallacy...
...trained for the application of a state of siege. Under the leadership of a soldier, they will be charged with the exercise of military authority which will be present at the hour of liberation, provided with orders for the cleansing and the revival of civil authority. This arrangement will function immediately with your participation and will provide for the removal of all undesirable elements, who must be isolated immediately so that the speedy but just trial of criminals can be proceeded with...
...pointed out that OWI's function is to keep the public informed about the war, but that, in his opinion, too much war news is being suppressed and delayed by the Navy and (to a lesser degree) the Army. (Examples: the details of the Tokyo bombing were suppressed for a full year; the news of the loss of four U.S. cruisers in the Savo Island battle was delayed two months, while the loss of an Australian cruiser in the same engagement was reported almost immediately...
...also sometimes bound to get cloudy-a fact that has saved and cost many combat flyers' lives. Because clouds are one of the important military concerns of World War II,* scientists have recently taken to more intensive cloud-gazing. Last week an unusually lucid explanation of the function of clouds in war was presented by an old cloud man, William J. Humphreys (retired) of the U.S. Weather Bureau, in a new book, Fog, Clouds and Aviation (Williams & Wilkins...
...body cannot be healthy, no matter how active its cells, if the organization and functions of the whole are defective. And organization and function depend on many things beyond cellular health: the Government's economic and political policies, the people's own disposition towards spending and taxation, the nation's trade relations with the rest of the world...