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Airmen had their fingers crossed when WAVE tower operators were proposed. They doubted if they could master complex regulations, charts, procedures, meteorological and radio skills (the WAACs have shied away from it), were suspicious of how women would bear up under control-tower pressures.
If the Ruml plan is a criterion, the Congress is afraid of war-time novelties, especially those that are not its own creation. But if inflation is going to be controlled not only simple income taxation, but other measures even more daring than Ruml's will have to be considered...
Russia first shied away from an Anglo-French accord against Germany when the Munich pact was signed in 1935, Professor Cross Said. In this instance Britain and France acted completely without consulting Moscow, thereby arousing the ire of the Russian Bear.
Senator Lodge has opposed the bulk of New Deal policies, domestic and foreign. He has tried to straddle the political fence has shied from important and controversial bills and in general has tried to identify himself with every group, publicly refusing to take a stand of his own. But in...
* Reported the Berlin radio: The King's horse "shied for some unknown reason, then bolted. The King was thrown and his head hit a stone. He did not suffer brain concussion."