Word: broadly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seen by Professor Ulich, the text in its present tentative state has two broad aims. Primarily it seeks to develop appreciation and understanding among diverse cultures for the furtherance of world peace; secondly it will endeavor to make available "to all peoples the world's full body of knowledge and culture...
...week of the war's end was, in many ways, the true beginning of the Truman Presidency. The military tasks which Harry Truman had inherited were done. The broad phases of Franklin Roosevelt's foreign-policy commitments had been carried out. The crisis of peace had arrived-and Harry Truman...
Many details were incomplete, but the broad general policy was worked out. ¶ OPA price controls would continue. ¶ All manpower controls would be taken off. ¶Wage controls would remain, but Washington worked feverishly on a stabilization formula which would be more flexible than the badly bent "Little Steel" formula. ¶ The 40-hour week would again be standard. That meant an immediate cut in the take-home pay ¶ Controls on raw materials would be lifted completely, except on still critical items, such as tin, rubber, lumber. Industry would be given a green light, but WPB would remain...
Industrial Cooperation. Donor Sloan wants to find out whether research on the same "broad and comprehensive scale" as modern industrial research can crack the problem of cancer. That is why he put Dr. Kettering, boss of G.M. research for 25 years, in charge of the program...
...formation available for industry to make plans far enough in advance, and lack of manpower in some key places. . . ." The committee laid some of the blame on former OWMBoss Fred Vinson (now Secretary of the Treasury). His office, said the committee, had spent too much time laying down broad policy, "is not accessible to a man with a problem." It also gave the back of its hand to the Army: "The Army is continuing to utilize its manpower wastefully. In addition it is setting up huge reserves of troops which it cannot hope to employ in the Pacific war except...