Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...aim of the majority of the American people . . . has been substantially that of the revolutionaries. . . . The private-enterprise system is faced with two alternatives. Either private decisions wall be made and enforced by public-spirited leaders in finance, industry, commerce, labor and agriculture, or public decisions will be made and enforced by the Government of the whole people for the whole people...
Last week the R. A. F. did turn on an offensive. This was not the famous Portal Master Plan-bombing industrial bottlenecks all over Germany and Italy. This was an offensive with an immediate military aim: disrupting German preparations for invasion of the British Isles...
...Aim of flying arsonists should be to start one huge, uncontrollable fire, not many small isolated ones. Slums are an ideal target, must be eliminated for defense if not for humanitarian reasons...
Last week's legal action followed reports that the gold, by German demand on Vichy, was being shipped by airplane from Dakar to Marseille for delivery to the Nazis. Aim of the suit (which had the tacit support of Washington): to establish that if the Belgian gold goes to Germany, France will have to make gold from its own gold (estimated at $500,000,000) "frozen" in the U.S. by Washington decree...
...with the announcement that the full-expense scholarships will be given to Massachusetts students next year, New England is, making a comeback in round three. The original reason for limiting the scholarships to the West was to make Harvard a national rather than a local institution. That aim has been accomplished at the expense of New England. The new policy is an attempt to restore the balance between East and West...