Word: roundabout
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...increased supply brought other changes. The roundabout and expensive conversion deals, through which consumer-goods manufacturers obtained about 1,000,000 tons of steel last year, were no longer necessary. As a result, Republic Steel Corp. closed down three of its Canton, Ohio furnaces used for conversion work. Demand for special steels had also slumped enough to cause Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corp. and Crucible Steel Co. to shut down three furnaces each...
Some observers, reading the Truman messages, saw the U.S. rushing straight into a "social-welfare state," saw it as a not too roundabout way to socialism. The Manchester Guardian, which sees socialism at first hand every day, thought that the U.S., as an alternative to socialism, was heading toward an "insurance state," i.e., "deliberate shortening of the odds against the weak but without abandoning the individualist way of life...
...York Star, produced an even more striking theory: he seemed to be saying that Bernadotte himself was an agent provocateur and had deliberately exposed himself to assassination. Crum declared that when Bernadotte set out on the inspection tour during which he was shot, he "had taken a devious, roundabout route which led him, for no reason whatever, directly through the Stern gang stronghold." (Actually, the Sternists did not control any one part of Jerusalem; their known headquarters were nowhere along Bernadotte's route...
...Jerusalem last week, the A.P. set a record for roundabout communication. A.P. Correspondent Carter Davidson, on the Haganah side of the battle line, was only a few hundred yards across no man's land from A.P. Correspondent Dan De Luce, with the Arab Legion. To communicate with De Luce, Davidson had to send his message via the U.S. consulate to Washington, then to the A.P.'s New York offices, which sent it back to Arab Legion headquarters at Amman, Transjordan, which delivered it to De Luce in Jerusalem. Total straight-line distance: 12,700 miles...
...They reassure prospective patients by saying that no one can be forced to act against his moral principles while in a trance (e.g., a girl cannot be hypnotically seduced if she does not want to be; if she does, the authors add gravely, "hypnosis is an unnecessarily involved and roundabout route...