Word: building
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...energy and vision that will be required to make the future more than a magnified image of the past. President Conant's "tough minded idealists" embody precisely the qualities that are required--a realization of the world's flaws and faults coupled with a seal to eliminate them, and build a world that as yet exists only in hopes and dreams...
...Gorgeous. Once the National Committee was set up, Mom had big ideas. She wanted to build a war widows' home for which she had had an elaborate plan made (see cut). The home, Mom figured, would cost a mere $12 million. Who would run it? Mom knew just the man-a waiter-captain she had met. Said Mom: "He's gorgeous...
...California's businessmen, it often seemed as if Henry J. Kaiser might be the New Deal's own private Paul Bunyan. Back in 1942 when the Defense Plant Corporation turned him down emphatically, the RFC loaned Kaiser $123,305,000 to build his Fontana steel mill. And he was permitted to use his shipbuilding profits (most of which would have gone to the U.S. in taxes anyway) to help pay the RFC loan. In this way he paid off $17 million...
...implement this objective we shall cooperate with and help build the labor movement, as we consider it to be the most progressive force in American life. We shall at all times oppose discrimination in any from, whether of color, national origin, religion, political belief, or sex, and we shall fight against fascism wherever it may manifest itself. We shall give our full support to the development of unity among all countries, especially the Great Powers, for without such unity the United Nations can never be an effective instrument for the preservation of world peace...
...U.S.C.C. has monopolized Japanese foreign trade. Its job of reviving Japan's biggest export industry, textiles, has been good enough already to make Chinese textilemen cry that they have been betrayed, and U.S. textilemen are grumbling. The Chinese had expected to have at least ten years to build up their own textile industries before there was any Japanese competition. But of the 12 million prewar Japanese spindles, 2.5 million are now operating, thanks to shipments of 900,000 bales of cotton owned by the Commodity Credit Corp. Some 90% of the cotton goods is being exported to 26 textile...