Word: 1940s
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years from now. His report was bottomed on sober statistics and hedged by careful qualifications -but it all added up to a bright vision. The good things in store for the U.S. in 1980, Professor Slichter wrote in the November Atlantic Monthly, will make the prosperity of the 1940s seem pale and austere...
...brought his hero's adventures up to date. Apparently working on the reasonable assumption that what has pleased 1,350,000 U.S. and English customers will please them again, Sinclair sticks close to his well-exercised formula. He thrusts Lanny into every important event in the mid-1940s, records the portentous if often empty conversations of the powerful, and buttresses his story at weak points with solid slabs of historical summary...
...Based on 1940s par of 100.2, the BLS index last week stood at 169.3, up more than two points in the last month. Best guess for next month's index: up one to three points...
...Certainly during the decade of the 1940s this country has devoted its supreme efforts toward the preservation of the liberty of nations and individuals. . . . During the war constructive foreign policy . . . followed two objectives closely related and mutually dependent-to establish the unity, mutual confidence and cooperation of the great powers; and to create international organizations, necessarily based on the assumption of this unity and cooperation...
...undoubtedly now faced with the most challenging human problem to come out of the war. We shall some day be faced with a hating and beaten Japan. We've got to have plenty of workable answers ready or history will record the 1940s and '50s as an era of political theories where the only reality was death in battle...