Word: americans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Government's plan at first hand, "that this program is working remarkably well and that it is a good thing for Britain. I can see now that most of the critics of our proposal in the United States have, whether deliberately or through ignorance, tried to mislead the American people on the facts about the British program...
When someone asked the general's lady *if she wanted to be a President's wife, she replied frankly: "What American woman wouldn't want her husband to be President?" The Savannah (Go.) Morning News went her one better, proposed a national conservative coalition ticket with Eisenhower as presidential candidate and Virginia's economy-minded Democrat, Senator Harry F. Byrd, as his running mate. Kansas' new interim Senator Harry Darby, a Republican, said that Ike was highly regarded in his home state of Kansas, but "any potential candidate might find himself in bad shape...
...that one leaking toilet could waste a million gallons a year, the patriotic launched dozens of odd water-saving schemes. Restaurants quit volunteering water with meals; citizens had to ask bravely for it or do without. A New Rochelle teacher forbade her pupils to paint with watercolors. The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals turned off its 38 horse-watering troughs. Neighborhood snoops began gossiping about drips, instead of drunks...
...journalism, eventually headed the powerful International Transport Workers' Federation. A good-natured, soft-spoken labor diplomat as well as a staunch anti-Communist and a crack administrator, Oldenbroek seemed to many outsiders to be the ideal man for the job. "We are going to be efficient, in the American sense," he said last week. "That means when you want something, you go all out, and no rest until...
Last week in London, the I.C.F.T.U. (International Confederation of Free Trade Unions) formally set itself up in business. In spite of some fraternal squabbles and a contest between American and British delegates for domination of the new labor international, the organization's birth pangs were relatively mild. It had managed to build the framework in which labor unions from 53 countries-including America's staid A.F.L., Britain's Socialist T.U.C. and (tentatively) the Continent's Catholic unions-could unite in their fight against Communism...