Word: resorting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...framework of capitalism, the private ownership of the means of production and distribution. . . . Both exist primarily to achieve and preserve collective-bargaining agreements. . . . Both stress round-table conferences and negotiations with employers as the most sensible and effective way of settling differences. . . . Both regard strikes as a last resort. . . . Both consider the wage-or salary -earner not as a class-conscious helot, but as a middle-class-conscious American having the same aims and aspirations that animate the rest of the population...
...heart of northern Ontario's summer-resort country a jumble of big, rambling buildings sits on the crest of a rolling, wooded slope which rises from the shores of a blue lake. During World War I it was used as a recuperation camp for Canadian officers. After the war it was remodeled as a swank private sanatorium, which failed during the depression. Two months ago it underwent another metamorphosis. The Canadian Government surrounded it with barbed wire, set up sentry boxes, installed 300 Nazi prisoners...
...grimmest words were spoken by a vice president of Manhattan's Chase National (biggest U. S.) Bank. Tall, balding Joseph Charles Roven-sky foresaw putting a lot of liberty on the shelf right away. He believed the U. S. would abandon at least temporarily the Hull methods, resort to Hitler's own methods of "barter or compensation trade." The Hull program was "sound in conception under normal conditions," said he, but "it is entirely probable that . . . we . . . shall also adopt trading practices born of expediency...
...pretty little resort town of Salzburg last week went delegations from three Balkan nations-but they didn't go there for fun. It was not yet known whether Germany or Russia (or both) was to be the master of their fate. In case it was Germany they had gone to get their German orders...
During the Arab-Jewish riots of 1936 in Jerusalem, Dr. Edward G. Joseph of Hadassah Hospital had many a patient whose abdomen was badly shot up. Dr. Joseph did not resort to drainage. Instead, he operated in a blood bath, stitched up his patients' intestines, closed their abdomens without further ado. When the victims recovered like clockwork, with no hint of peritonitis, he decided that free outpouring of blood in the peritoneal cavity might be more help than harm...