Word: substandard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...German counterattacks were mounted by topnotch fighting outfits, which furnished enough cohesion to keep the whole wall from crumbling. Substandard soldiers, as well as good soldiers, seemed to draw strength from the "holy soil" and the well-fitted defenses...
...harrumphed 58-year-old Major General (retired) Frank Rudolph Schwengel, president of Joseph E. Seagram & Sons, Inc., "that the finely made beverage spirits produced by American distillers for the war effort should go into hair tonic, cosmetics and shoe polish, while substandard commercial alcohol from Cuba goes into the American stomach...
...special board, set up by President Roosevelt to deal with the railroad men, recommended an 8? increase. This was torpedoed by Economic Stabilization Boss Fred Vinson. Vinson's decision laid down the policy that "gross inequity" was to be recognized only when the workers lived in "substandard conditions...
...teachers quit teaching, some 18,000 schools closed, more than 41,000 took on substandard teachers and had to put up with them for years after...
...Curtiss-Wright, answered Truman's attacks: "The P-40 has been continuously modernized, [has] shot down from three to 20 enemy planes for every P-40 lost. . . . The company emphatically denies that Wright has at any time sold products known to the company to have contained defective or substandard parts...