Word: basic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they entered, both men were met by a uniformed doorman who took their coats and ushered them straight into the green-walled office of John Wesley Snyder, the ex-St. Louis banker who is President Truman's Director of Reconversion. The basic labor problem of reconversion had come to a head...
After a long, hard look at U.S. high schools, from opposite ends of a telescope, two educators last week agreed on the basic trouble with U.S. secondary education: too much book learning...
...business whose hallmark is frightfulness, Waitt's CWS did its job so well that it made any hostile use of chemical warfare unprofitable. Though the U.S. never mass-produced killing and maiming gasses (Germany stored well over 250,000 tons), it kept up production of their basic components, such as chlorine. It also produced 35,000,000 gas masks for men, 39,000 for Army horses and mules, 1,400 for dogs. It turned out some 2,200,000 decontamination appliances, 162,000,000 tubes of anti-blister ointment...
...Basic Problem. The new tool could be used to further any kind of trade and any kind of world its dominant users wanted. Its avowed purposes were to promote world trade by helping stabilize exchange (through the Fund) and by financing reconstruction (through the Bank). But the Fund can stabilize the relationship between currencies only if the currencies themselves remain reasonably stable...
...Douglas MacArthur's first detailed account of his stewardship in Japan and Korea ran to some 100,000 words and had the usual MacArthur attributes. It read well; detailed facts punctuated its sweeping perspective. And it boiled down to one basic fact: General MacArthur had done a bang-up job of occupying Japan...