Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...active were all steel mills last week that pig-iron production had begun to lag behind them. Steelmen therefore upped their purchases of scrap, the alternate ingredient used with or instead of pig iron. Last week they grumbled because they had bid the price up $2 in ten days to $21. They grumbled also because the Defense Commission still sanctioned scrap exports...
...also suggested changes to legislators in other price-fixing States-Ohio, for example, where price-fixed Maxwell House Coffee costs about 31? (instead of 24? elsewhere). Meanwhile New Yorkers, not suspecting what they had started, continued storming cut-rate liquor stores...
...British officer knocks at their front door. He has lost his way to the airport, wants to borrow a map. Having done their homework on the Ministry's invasion pamphlet the Misses Grant know enough to keep the officer talking until a tongue slip (he says "Yarvis" instead of Jarvis Hill) reveals him as a German. One lady holds him at bay with a pistol found on the dying man while the other wobbles off by bicycle to get help. The German begs a cigaret which Miss Grant sportingly, if inadvisedly, tosses him. This distraction provides his chance...
...Nations High Commissioner for Danzig. To the writing of 17th-Century history he brings an unusual firsthand knowledge of 20th-century practical politics. He also brings a keen grasp of the political mind, a powerful prose style. He uses them for a kind of historical writing in which, instead of reading history, the reader seems to be taking part in politics...
...article on Liberalism and War, in which he concludes that "the liberals have come a long way in the past quarter century," and "in the event of full intervention by the United States there is reason to believe that the liberal movement will avoid another debacle and emerge instead with its nativist tradition developed and with a greatly enhanced access to political power." A discussion of more personalities and publication of both periods, plus a consideration of the actual war legislation (1916 and 1940) in connection with the issues of "undemocratic abuses" and "planning," would not have been amiss...