Word: access
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only knows the requirements, advantages, and disadvantages of all branches of the Service, but also has access to such helpful morsels as the Government's recent request for 3,000 Army airplane navigators to be recruited during October, November, and December...
...publicly issued are hard for even the European masters of verbal gymnastics to pervert. Therefore, the proposals of Wallace and Leith-Ross, if sufficiently just, widely enough publicized, and actually carried out, may mean that the war will not inevitably result in an economically unworkable Europe. With freedom of access to markets and raw materials open to nations large or small, political boundaries will be less important and autonomy for small cultural blocs an economic possibility. The fight for lebensraum finally may be ended...
Britain, on the other hand, sits comparatively pretty. Though she must import all but 5% of her oil, she has access by sea to perhaps 85% of the world's supply. Her consumption is 100,000,000 barrels a year, her problem, transportation. To supplement her own huge tanker fleet she has added Norwegian, Dutch, French and Belgian tonnage, as well as 80 U.S. tankers...
...Regional free trade, and free access to raw materials for every nation...
...pronouncement was largely due to a feeling that this time it sounded warmed over. But the eight points were not wholly warmed over from Wood-row Wilson. Whereas the 14 points dealt largely with political matters, the eight put much of their emphasis on economic solutions. The fourth point-access to victor and vanquished alike to raw materials -undertook to appeal directly to those Europeans who dislike Naziism but have regarded it as an economic necessity...