Word: building
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This means that Finland must build up her metal and engineering industry-for which she will have trouble finding any future customer, except Russia, after reparations are fully paid. At present, at least a tenth of Finland's national income goes for reparations, which will run for six more years...
...part of the trouble lies with the CAA," says FORTUNE, "it is up to the airlines to build bonfires under CAA. If part of the trouble lies in [city-owned, politics-ridden airports], let the airlines put pressure on the municipalities." In short, the airlines have a big job to do-somehow...
...political religiosos in Bombay and Calcutta, by glib protestations of Occidental parlor progressives in London and Washington, and by the well-meaning, but weak movements of British diplomats between Simla and New Delhi. All have realized the genuine desire of the Indian for liberty, but all have tried to build from the top, speaking of the establishment of ministries and legislatures and agencies, and overlooking, in their plans, proposals for pulling the average Indian out of the squalor and ignorance in which he now exists. Talk about India these days is inevitably concerned with the struggle for political fredom, disregarding...
...plans of the Nationalist leaders, much concerned with the preservation of their own personal spirits in the Vedaic aftermath, are similarly vague. To give meaning to this liberty, both the British and the Indians must work together from the ground to achieve some social foundation on which to build a union of the Indian peoples. Education, agricultural reform, social security, and systems of public health must be strengthened beyond their present token status as newsreel scenes of British paternalism. Freedom, more than a word, is more than a constitution and a congress...
...high-handed way the Commission had been run. That meant: Emory Scott Land, onetime chairman of the Maritime Commission and War Shipping Administration (now head of the Air Transport Association) and the late Howard Vickery, Commission vice chairman. They had often told shipbuilders to go ahead and build ships, with contracts to come along later. They had shifted material, men, and contracts by phone rather than formal letter, had kept much of the bookkeeping in their heads. No one denied that it was a wasteful way to build ships and highly expensive to the taxpayer, but the methods...