Word: interims
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...dodge the Army's ban on all aircraft-company interim reports, both companies did some fancy footwork: United cagily labeled itself "a Navy contractor." Aviation Corp. wriggled through the loophole exempting all companies which have less than one-third their total business in finished planes...
...then Congressman) Dempsey ran for the U.S. Senate from New Mexico. Behind him was a record as one of the most effective, best-liked legislators the House had seen in a blue moon. But his opponent, Senator Dennis Chavez, had a slick political machine. Dempsey lost, took the interim Interior job. Now he wanted to go back to New Mexico and run for Governor...
...pass without some major blow, somewhere. No such blow came last week. From the Leningrad front to the Sea of Azov, the leashed armies sniped at each other with local air and land forays. For all save the dead and the wounded, these forays may have been merely the interim routine of war. Or they may have been the preludes to decisive battle...
...rubber, gas, and sugar, but the economists from Hansen to Keynes are united in believing this one-sided attack inadequate to control, an entire price structure. Temptations to the bootleg "black market" are too severe; enforcement difficulties are overwhelming. Henderson himself has publicly recognized price control to be an interim measure, a temporary substitute for taxes that hurt...
...separate materials and purposes. On huge, bright pink Purp blanks, a manufacturer can list all his material needs for all purposes for the coming quarter, get priorities clearance on the whole smear at once. If his needs change during the quarter, he can fill out similar yellow blanks for "interim assistance." Small firms (gross business under $100,000 a year) can use a simplified form...