Word: basic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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American prosperity is a shaky temporary structure, declared President Truman in a mid-year economic report to Congress and the public yesterday. "Basic adjustments" are called for in wages, prices, and profits, he warned, before inaction produces serious unemployment and business decline...
Recent developments, Professor Black added, make any precipitous rise in public spending particularly dangerous now. Pointing to numerous wage increases, particularly in the basic industry of coal, Professor Black saw a spending increment made possible by terminal leave cash as an ominous inflation threat...
Much Need, Little Hope. Wedemeyer's mission meant no basic change in U.S. policy. There never had been any question but that Chiang Kai-shek's government should be helped. The only question was how, and on what terms. Nanking's immediate needs were higher than ever. Inflation ran unchecked, her armies were in danger of losing most of Manchuria, popular support was at a low ebb. Money was desperately needed to rebuild railroads and port facilities, to construct power plants. Nanking's own estimates of her needs ran to $2½ billion...
...Anglo-Catholics. Auden is a shock-headed Briton with chewed fingernails and schoolboy charm, whose love of language is so active that he is never quite sure he doesn't write entirely for fun. He feels and says that good U.S. writers are too inhibited to admit "the basic frivolity...
...years Raymond Cameron, 39, had dug coal in Cape Breton's pits. Last February, along with 13,000 other Maritime miners, he went on strike for more pay. Out of the 99-day strike, the miners got a basic $1-a-day pay boost, bringing the day's average to $12. But Miner Cameron was not satisfied with working conditions...