Word: america
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...supply these things, America's factories and mines would have to produce between five and ten times as much as today, and its farms almost three times as much. Moulton points out that, even with present knowledge, vast new areas can be brought under cultivation, swamps and deserts reclaimed; he believes that certain crops could be raised in the fertile bed of the ocean. Fertilizers could increase farm output as much as the "discovery of a sixth continent...
...they read the Süddeutsche Zeitung one morning last week, Munich's 3,400 Jews felt fresh vitriol in their old wounds. A letter to the editor, signed with the pseudonym "Adolf Bleibtreu" (Stay True to Adolf), screamed at the Jews: "Go ahead and go to America, even though the people there have no use for you either. They have had enough of you bloodsuckers. Several of the Amis [slang for Americans] have already told me they forgive us for everything except one thing: that we did not gas all the Jews, for many are now enjoying life...
...anything that can properly be called socialism . . . The change in the relationship between the old industrial nations of Europe and the new industrial giant in the New World has been on the way for the last 30 years . . . Now, in 1949, the underlying maladjustment between Europe and America is emerging like a reef hidden for a time under a spring tide...
Down a runway at Toronto's Malton airport last week roared the first commercial jet transport to fly in North America. The silver and yellow "Jetliner" built by A. V. Roe Canada Ltd. took off, circled at 200 ft., then zoomed sharply to 13,000. An hour and ten minutes later Test Pilot James Orrell brought his aircraft in for a smooth landing in summer-heated bumpy air. "It was a piece of cake," he said happily. "She handled like a fighter. Terrific...
Mother Watches. Metro's publicity men have not missed many bets. In July of last year, West Point's All-America Glenn Davis was brought by some friends to the Taylors' house at Malibu Beach. When Infantryman Davis appeared, Elizabeth looked up "and I thought: O ye gods, no! ... He was so wonderful...