Word: access
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Others, notably the Associated Press's Kent Cooper and the United Press's Hugh Baillie, have been urging U.S. publishers since the end of World War I to pull to gether for treaty-guaranteed press access to information and communications throughout the world. The Knight-prodded ASNE planned to start by urging its aims on the platform committees of the Republican and Democratic conventions. Publisher Knight named a strong committee to plead the cause there and elsewhere...
...invasion planes at one time crowded Gibraltar's airfield within range of Spanish guns; a great fleet of Allied shipping rested in Spanish waters, under Spanish guns. But the Spaniards did not interfere. If they had, "the Strait of Gibraltar would have been closed, and all access to the Mediterranean would have been cut off from the west, and the Spanish coasts would have become a nesting place for German U-boats...
When Churchill and President Roosevelt wrote the Atlantic Charter and came to the section about free access to raw materials, Churchill inserted the phrase "With due respect for their existing obligations." "These," said he, "are the limiting words . . . inserted for the express purpose of retaining to this House and to the Dominions the fullest possible rights and liberties over the question of imperial preference...
...Rough. For Pan Am's "chosen instrument," which Josephson contends is but "air imperialism" and the breeder of future international troubles, Josephson would substitute a modified freedom of the air, corresponding in a general way with freedom of the seas, i.e., a system giving all nations equal access to airports. He argues that the U.S., because of its need for overseas bases, would have much to gain by this system and little to lose. But he is not optimistic about the ease of establishing a workable freedom of the air. The U.S. has, willy-nilly, placed...
...speech and record noted that they had been significantly tailored to their respective audiences. Omitted for Waldorf-Astoria listeners, for example, was a recorded assertion that "the present high concentration of investment banking in New York City is itself incompatible with free enterprise, for only large national corporations have access on reasonable terms to that market...