Word: concept
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only big surprise came when Perón reached Article 20, in which he introduced a brand-new concept of nationality. Foreigners who had lived in Argentina for two years, said the proposed new clause, must apply for citizenship...
...black sheep from the meat block and get it to the county fair might have become moderately tiresome, except for timely interruptions for ballad and cartoon sequences. Beulah Bondi, a Bible-quoting grandmother, and the late Harry Carey, as a kindly farmer, fit almost perfectly into the Hollywood concept of uppercrust hillbillydom...
...rejected the leadership of the "privileged few." Said Mr. Truman: "We have abandoned the 'trickle-down' concept of national prosperity." The election had shown, he said, that the American people believe "poverty is just as wasteful and just as unnecessary as preventable disease." As President, he promised that there was going to be a "fair deal...
...unparalleled production marathon of 1948, many a U.S. businessman marched in seven-league boots. Charles E. Wilson's General Motors turned in the biggest profits of any single U.S. company (estimated $425 million), and by tying wage increases to the cost of living, showed a statesmanlike concept of management-labor relations. Montgomery Ward's Sewell Avery put on his own special one-man show; since midyear, he had fired or accepted the resignations of his president and seven other executives, but he still turned in the biggest profits (about $65 million) in "Monkey" Ward's history...
Canadian-U.S. defense is being geared to a new peacetime concept: a coordinated arms program. For a start, Canada has plans to manufacture U.S.-type planes for both the R.C.A.F. and the U.S. Air Force. If that works out, the idea can be extended to guns (which both would make), tanks (U.S.-made), patrol craft and antisub boats (Canada-made...