Word: america
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Detroit. To this Bavaria, America has brought not only snack bars and jukeboxes but also a man who is easily the most interesting ruler the country has known since mad King Ludwig II. He is Murray D. van Wagoner, onetime Michigan state commissioner of roads, onetime governor of Michigan, today governor of Bavaria. A portly, ruddy-faced man with a kind of gruff charm, Van Wagoner engages in no such lunacies as Ludwig, who built bizarre stone castles all over Bavaria, and ended his life by jumping into a lake. Van Wagoner's castles are all built...
...young war veteran, broken by his experience, confused in heart and mind, will interrupt your talk about how democracy must be defended at all costs. He will ask: 'That is very nice talk, but tell me about tomorrow. Am I to take a gun and fight for capitalist America?' If you have time, you can go on and explain what capitalist America...
Fuller Lives. The American Military Government has spurred local people to take steadily increasing responsibility. Nagasaki's normal cheerfulness has been largely restored by giving personal needs priority over industrial recovery. Food is nearly up to prewar level, with one-seventh the supply provided by America. Department stores are well stocked, especially compared to Europe. Steady progress has been made toward rebuilding the destroyed 47% of the city's housing...
Union Buster? Francis Spellman had two explanations for the decision that he made. First, he pointed out, the gravediggers' union was affiliated with a Communist-dominated international (C.I.O.'s Food, Tobacco and Agricultural Workers of America). Second, the strikers' action was "an unjustified and immoral strike against the innocent dead and their bereaved families, against their religion and human decency...
Unlike Britain and France, which have long used a system of year-end ratings to evaluate top race horses the U.S. muddled along with no official formula for comparing its turf champions. Last month in Lexington, Ky., breeders of the Thoroughbred Club of America decided to do something about it. They agreed on a plan to standardize rankings of the nation's top-flighters with a system of handicap weights based on performances at a mile-and-a-quarter. It was to be called the Yardstick...