Word: breakdowns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Schumpeter declared that the conception of an endless war-society was not as fanciful as it seemed, and that "war-fare might very conceivably become an integral part of society, without an economic breakdown, by means of a super-gearing of industry by force and propaganda...
...Britain's refusal to recognize Russia's sphere of influence in the Baltic that caused the breakdown of Anglo-Franco-Russian talks in 1939, and the subsequent Russo-German Non-Aggression Treaty...
...after following Linda to New York, he perversely fell in love with a foreign correspondent's wife whose face was ravaged as the result of a chemical explosion, but it became necessary for Linda to leap into a river in despair. Then the doctor had a nervous breakdown. Unable to figure out any way to get the doctor back on the right track the authors at this point decided to send him home to mother. Meanwhile Linda was rescued by an Irish bargeman whose sister was a shoplifter. Since the Irishman seemed due to have next call on Linda...
...total haul of a cigaret lighter, cigaret case and cigarets, drew one day's sentence but were detained a fortnight. The loot was often trifling, but the principle was bad. Warned the News Chronicle: "If the looting went unchecked it would swiftly pave the way for social breakdown and anarchy . . ."; the Sunday Dispatch in an editorial titled "Forward the Gallows" snapped: "Someone should be hanged-quickly." Military and civil defense services were often involved. Most shocking case was that of four members of the heroic time-bomb disposal squad that saved St. Paul's (TIME, Nov. 4). Last...
...fact is that small change has not increased much. On Aug. 31 (latest breakdown), $174,000,000 in 1? and 5? pieces was at large in the U. S., only $18,000,000 over last year. Dimes, quarters and halves (''subsidiary silver coin") totaled $389,000,000, up only $24,000,000 from 1939. Over $800,000,000 of the "missing" money is in the form of bills-mostly silver certificates and Federal Reserve notes...