Word: access
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...value to the U.S. is for her to continue with her large population and her great, enterprising industrial economy. And the only way she can maintain these is for her to have immense export markets for her goods, services and investments, as well as the means of access to them-shipping and airlines...
Last year 10,450 producer cooperatives (mostly growers and dairymen) marketed $2.5 billion worth of products for their farmer members. Their city cousins retailed only $750 million of goods. To help the urban groups, as well as to provide farm co-ops with easier access to funds, the convention put finishing touches on their national finance association, which will raise capital by selling cooperative securities to financially strong regional cooperative groups...
...Even Moscow took sides. War and the Working Class, which always states official Communist views, charged that Tom Dewey's nomination was promoted by "the most reactionary elements" in the Republican Party. Roared W.W.C.: "Through it [the G.O.P.] defeatists and appeasers, even Hitlerite agents, are seeking access to the political arena...
...would like to swap, let Britain have the southwest and take Britain's area, which includes the Ruhr, the Rhineland and the North Sea coast. Reason: U.S. supply lines, already stretched across the Atlantic, would be somewhat shortened by access from the North Sea. A possible compromise: joint U.S.-British occupation of all of western Germany...
Radcliffe's president-emeritus, Ada Comstock Notesiein, in authority for this incident: Access to Boston's exclusive Athenaeum Library, with its rare books for scholarly research, is permitted by card only. Occasionally Radcliffe students of special merit are given cards to the Library, to the horror of older members. "Why," declared one indignant Back Bay lady, "these young women come in with their lipstick and their fur coats, and actually ask for scholarly books, thereby adding hypocrisy to their other sins!"--Readers Digest, September...