Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...People Growled. Obviously Getulio Vargas had qualms about departing from his policy of militant defense. And he may have had good reasons: Axis submarines might have concentrated on Brazilian ships intentionally to provoke war and thus to draw bigger U.S. forces into the South Atlantic; Axis strategists might be trying to cut communications between Brazil's vulnerable hump and the south, preparatory to an attack from Dakar...
...Bigger in area than the U.S., Brazil has a population of more than 40,000,000, of whom 1,000,000 are of pure German stock and 2,000,000 of Italian. Its small conscript army, recently expanded with U.S. technical assistance, numbers little more than 100,000 men, with an estimated 300,000 in reserve-just about large enough to squash possible fifth columns. Armed with World War I French artillery, the army ordered more from Germany in 1938, received cannon but little ammunition. Under Lend-Lease it has received additional arms from the U.S., but is still pitifully...
...Harvard a similar but still bigger plan is in the works. Inspired by famed Professor Sumner Slichter (who in 1937 launched a course in collective bargaining for employers) Harvard will offer some 25 labor fellowships like its Nieman scholarships for journalism...
...workers at Bayonne actually made more money than most of them ever made in their lives - an average of $46.25 for the men and $30.72 for the women, according to WLB. But still they were disappointed that they weren't making still bigger money. They got sore when WLB turned down their demand for a 10?-an-hour increase on the grounds that they were making plenty already and that their pay had already been upped more than 15% since Jan. 1, 1941. Against advice of older workers and the International Brotherhood, they voted an outlaw strike-the first...
...hoped U.P.'s informant had heard the President aright. But such henny-penny, Morgenthau economics must have been more than annoying to Professor Alvin Hansen, to Mordecai Ezekiel, to Lauchlin Currie, and to a lot of other braintrusters who are planning to prevent any post-war depression by bigger and better deficits. It may have cheered the National Association of Manufacturers, who have not heard the President promise to balance the budget for a long time, but it must have been a shock to those businessmen who still realize that rapid retirement of billions of dollars of debt would...