Word: capitalistically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Union was plain to see. Japanese teachers are overworked (average work week: 60 hours) and underpaid (average salary: about $50 a month). A small group of Reds and fellow travelers has played on their grievances and twisted their idealism to work up a propaganda war against the U.S. and "capitalist war plans," and for "peace" and "neutrality." Japan's unruly student population, in turn, has proved to be fertile soil for the smooth-sounding "peace" campaigns of the teachers...
...performs nobly as Joseph, one of a trio of convicts who attempt to solve the problems of the Ducotel family. Losing money at an alarming rate, Felix Ducotel's general store in the French penal colony is soon to be closed by Henri Trochard, the prototype of a heartless capitalist. To add insult to bankruptcy, Ducotel's daughter is hopelessly in love with Trochard's nephew, who can only marry on the pain of disinheritance. At this point, it might be said with some justification that this is nothing new, even under the Guiana sun. Actually, when Spewack introduces...
...reach its own people, thus easing some of the pressure on exporters. To this end, Germany is already working on a plan to lift some import restrictions and cut taxes in order to raise purchasing power. In such ways it can insure its own future as a working capitalist democracy and reduce the threat of a trade war that might split the West in a time of crisis...
...economic history at the London School of Economics, has come to this conclusion from reading student examinations. Last week, in an essay called The Treatment of Capitalism by Historians? * Ashton told what some of these ideas are-and roundly denounced them as a tired old libel of the capitalist system...
Super Force. But of all the mistakes the historians have made, "it is the stress on the capitalist spirit that has, I think, done the most harm." From being merely a phrase, "it has become an impersonal, superhuman force." The historians talk about "the inevitable decomposition of capitalist society." This has "introduced a new mysticism into the recounting of plain facts. Things happen because capitalism requires them to happen-even, it may be added, to an end not yet reached." Concludes Ashton: "I do not want to see history written as though its function were to simply exhibit the gradualness...