Word: belief
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many U.S. citizens are buying farms, to hedge themselves against inflation. This general belief was confirmed when the National Association of Real Estate Boards reported on its survey of 208 of its farm-market specialists. They found that the fear of inflation dominates 40% of all farm purchases. Other sales are routine: 56% to farmers, 38% to investors, 6% to city folk who have had a lifelong itch for cows, chickens and the smell of manure. Such purchases have boosted prices 15% since 1940; the trend is still up. There is a newer reason for buying farms now: people want...
...Belief in Russia...
Trial Ahead. Some anxious citizens hoped the U.S. was storing strength for the ordeal ahead. Japan, stronger every day behind its vast perimeter of defenses, could base the hope of victory on one belief alone: that when the time came the U.S. would flinch at paying the price of a fight to the finish. That price would be high if the U.S. attacked Japan this year. However high, it might be only a fraction of the price, next year. Time was on Japan's side...
...Quiz Kid Kupperman of Chicago, a pale, sturdy, brown-eyed six-year-old who spoke somewhat juicily, thanks to a natural lisp and the recent shedding of three teeth. He had no trouble figuring the normal tax on $2,650 without pencil or paper. He also volunteered the belief that the United Nations were sure to win the war because he had so many friends and relatives...
...Warsaw the life of the times whispered the agony of that worship, If the new terms of the new world were not to be wild echoes of the past or the wild grasping for a new turbulence, they could begin with the truth. If democracy reborn is based on belief in the dignity of man, that dignity carries with it the positive affirmation that all men are brothers and that their death and their sinful unneighborliness is a part of the denial of their brotherhood. If the unharnessed power of the Yangtze flowing for thousands of years past the unseeing...