Word: commonwealths
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...other fact emerged: as U.S. forces increasingly assumed the burden of the fighting on the Western Front and committed themselves more extensively in the Pacific campaign, their losses drew closer to those of the British Commonwealth, which now total more than 1,000,000 in five and a quarter years of conflict (including more than 600,000 from the United Kingdom). Empire casualties in World War I were...
...stood alone. We kept nothing back in blood or effort or treasure from what has now become the common cause of more than 30 nations. We seek no territory; we covet no oilfields; we demand no bases for forces of air or of sea. We are an ancient Commonwealth dwelling and wishing to dwell at peace within our own habitations. . . . We have given and shall continue to give everything we have...
...nothing in return except that consideration and respect which are our due, and if that is denied us, we would still have good conscience. Let none, therefore, in our country and Commonwealth or in the outside world misname or traduce our motives...
...economist gained his reputation as the man who brought Australia out of the depression early in the 1930s. He is Economic Consultant to the Prime Minister of Australia and Commonwealth Prices Commissioner, as well as dean of the Faculty of Commerce of the University of Melbourne...
...compete with and envelop private companies, a force destructive to private enterprise. "Actually," he continued, "it is the natural outcome of the conservation policies of Theodore Roosevelt, as well as those of Franklin Roosevelt." The late Wendell Willkie, in the midst of the battle between the TVA and Commonwealth and Southern, said to Lilienthal that "no region in which the government so interfered would ever be prosperous again because investors would be discouraged. But the TVA, its head maintained, has stimulated private industry and activity through public expenditure, public activity, and public enterprise...