Word: built
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...income. Johnson maintained that the proposal would add almost $5 billion to U.S. revenue. But Harry Byrd, a better man with tax figures than Lyndon Johnson, said that it would result in a net loss of nearly $600 million. Tax Expert Byrd's conclusion: Johnson's jerry-built plan would dangerously weaken the nation's tax structure...
...compared to the ballooning notions of world reorganization cherished in Washington; Stalin fought for one river boundary of Poland against another with the myopic pertinacity of a 17th century diplomat arguing over a second-string fortress. But of these small, ignoble chunks of reality was the actual postwar world built. _ Nor did Roosevelt at Yalta act and talk like a man who wholly believed in the future concert of the Big Three. He and Churchill did not talk to Stalin in their natural voices; they descended again and again to the level of cynicism on which they knew Stalin...
Instead, over the next four years, Stalin blocked Nationalist China's return to Manchuria; Stalin armed and otherwise abetted the Chinese Communists as they built up a decisive army in Manchuria; Stalin looted Manchuria of $2 billion worth of Japanese industrial equipment on which Chiang had counted for China's economic uplift. Then, in late 1949, two days after Mao Tse-tung proclaimed the Chinese Communist state, Stalin withdrew formal recognition from Chiang and gave it to his longtime Chinese prot...
...question of its form, Selective Service or Universal Military Training. I believe that conscription in any form is unnecessary and is detrimental to the preservation of world peace. Large armies and military preparations only incite fear and suspicion among the nations of the world. Enduring peace must be built on understanding and friendship, not fear and suspicion...
Cash-Register Clausewitz. As they scurry out of Paris before the Nazi Panzers and Stukas in the summer of 1940, Papa and Mama Poissonard and family seem no better off than anyone else Papa is built like a beer barrel and Mama like a bathtub, but they do have a nose for news, and word reaches them within a week that the Germans are most "correct." They race back to the Bon Beurre, to do a little business-as-usual...