Word: accessible
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Professor Merriam then proclaimed a 1940 Bill of Rights: "For everyone there should be equal access to minimum security and to the adventures of civilization; for everyone there should be food, shelter, clothing; for everyone there should be a job; for everyone there should be a guaranty of security against accident and disease; for everyone there should be a guaranteed education; for everyone there should be a guaranty of protection against old age; for everyone there should be an opportunity for recreation and cultural activities...
...ever, material aid must be supplemented by direct naval and military assistance. It then becomes purely a matter of strategy whether at some later time active belligerency is required. Having settled the fundamental issue we must be ready to follow who advice of those military experts who have access to all relevant information. But until the fundamental question has been answered, military experts cannot settle those detailed problems which now disturb the country...
...Taking to the water, it signed a contract with Snapp Navigation Co. of Brazil for service up the Amazon. The new river line will connect Condor's coastal route to its line running up along the Bolivian-Brazilian frontier, will give its systems in Ecuador, Bolivia and Peru access to an Atlantic outlet. If President Vargas' three-week-old promise of domestic colonization and agricultural development in the Amazon goes through, Condor will have a wedge into the heart of Brazil's richest territory...
...Germany did not gain materially in wartime industrial strength, Britain lost enough to make Germany's conquests worthwhile. She lost access to Sweden's iron ore, Norway's refined and processed metals, dairy products from Denmark and The Netherlands, Scandinavian timber, Belgian steel, bauxite from France. But so long as she controlled the seas, had bottoms to carry goods in, ports to unload them at, she could call on the Empire and the Americas to replace what the Nazis had taken. In the folds of Britain's Pennine Range were 19% of the world...
...dictators are playing in this area. More important it would keep the other dictators out of the Mediterranean which the Italians like possessively to call Mare Nostrum. If Mussolini took Bulgaria he would also have to have the port of Dedeagach on the Aegean Sea to give him access to his conquest without going into the Black...