Word: breakdowns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Close students of our public school system agree, I think, that there is far more danger of a serious breakdown in this system as a result of inadequate attention to administrative complications, particularly financial complications, than from the supposedly subversive influences said to be at work in our schools," President Conant said...
...statesman who capitulated at Vienna on orders from Carol II, Foreign Minister Mihail Manoilescu, last week suffered a nervous breakdown on the train back to Bucharest. But more than nerves were breaking. Rumanian editors, who for years had supported the regime, suddenly turned around and told the people of graft and corruption in building the Carol Line, denounced rampant rottenness in State and Court...
Last week the U. S. Treasury issued a breakdown of income-tax returns for the depression year 1938. Set against the returns for previous years, they all but completed the pattern of a decade's economic change...
...Meanwhile, in Vichy, Petain and his Cabinet methodically set about the task of rebuilding ravaged France. There were shortages of almost everything needed to keep life going: milk and butter, meat, sugar, soap, raw materials in general. Some foods were plentiful, but were withheld from hungry citizens by the breakdown of communications. Virtually all gasoline was in German hands; so were the northern coal mines, undamaged by the Nazi advance. Coffee and other imports were scarce...
...Deficit spending and the growth of the public debt have made U. S. citizens unwilling to make long-term capital commitments. Investors, says Brookings, fear an ultimate "breakdown of public credit...