Word: commonwealths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...surprises and little to cheer about. Biggest surprise: a good many utilities, whose outlook for increased earnings was supposedly hopeless-their gross business is stable, their costs, on the rise-managed to squeak out a little more net income. Most notable were Wendell Willkie's ex-company. Commonwealth & Southern, with a six months' net of $7,331,000, its best showing in more than ten years; and New York's huge, over-bonded Consolidated Edison, whose $5,869,000 net for the second quarter was almost 25% above last year...
...those in the U.S. who, for either liberal or imperialist reasons, want the British Empire liquidated, Winston Churchill spoke plainly. Though willing to compromise on its title, he glories in the Empire and is not ashamed of the word: "I think the expression, British Commonwealth and Empire, may well be found the most convenient means to describe this unique association of races which was built up partly by conquest, largely by consent. . . . The universal ardor of our colonial empire to join in this awful conflict . . . is the first answer that I would make to those ignorant, envious voices who call...
...achieved before Japan has been laid low, I stand here to tell you today . . . that every man, every ship and every airplane in the King's service that can be moved to the Pacific will be sent and there maintained in action by the people of the British Commonwealth and Empire in priorities for as many flaming years as are needed to make the Japanese in their turn submit or bite the dust...
...Upon the association and the intimate alignment of the policy of the United States and the British Commonwealth and Empire depends, more than upon any other factor, the immediate future of the world...
...issue was strictly domestic politics. Dyspeptic John Curtin had angered the Opposition by declaring publicly that the Jap invasion threat had passed. That looked as if the Prime Minister, with an eye on the regular elections in November, was making the biggest claim in Commonwealth political history: that Labor had saved the country. The Opposition's leader, Arthur W. ("Artie the Artful") Fadden, presumably thought that Curtin's popularity would rise as Allied prospects in the Pacific improved. Besides, the politicians wanted a showdown over controversial labor, social security and food policies...