Word: allowance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Franklin Roosevelt, who has his own ideas about the war, the peace to follow and the post-war U.S., was not willing to give up without a struggle. Nor would Franklin Roosevelt the politician, who has influenced the course of U.S. history more than most men before him, allow himself to lose the struggle through ineptness on this important occasion...
...real enough, even though they have no organic basis . . . the hysterias . . . and war neuroses, miscalled shell shock in the World War, have this origin. When a soldier reaches a point where he can no longer stand up under the horrors he must face . . . and yet his spirit will not allow him to turn back, then he may suddenly go blind, lose the use of his arms or legs, or he may forget his name and everything connected with his identity and wander...
...They think the British nation pretty tough, too, after the way we have stood up to bombings." >"You may think they are inclined to make too much of the skyscrapers of New York, the lights of Manhattan, the extent of the prairies and the beauty of Niagara. If you allow yourself to be irritated by their talk it will mean you cannot find things to equal them in Britain. ... If an American soldier brags about his country, in all probability he is feeling pretty homesick for it and just to talk about it brings his homeland nearer...
...competing stores and ease the small businessman's position, each store class will be assigned definite markups above operating costs. The markups are to be based on studies (made by the Bureau of Labor Statistics) of margins of several thousand U.S. food stores. Independent grocers generally will be allowed wider margins than chains and big markets to allow for difference in business methods and operating costs. Similar controls will be extended to wholesalers...
...Japanese we may nevertheless in the process lose many of the values in the traditional heritage for which we are fighting. . . . The danger comes from within our country. In the process of [postwar] reconstruction the outstanding criteria of values will be materialistic and utilitarian. If the Universities allow themselves to be overwhelmed by such a philosophy, if they and their alumni cannot meet the surge of unthinking public opinion, we shall enter a period and regime of intellectual mediocrity and spiritual stagnation which for the hopes of a civilized people would be hardly preferable to a new Dark Ages...