Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...galloping inflation, by the political bankruptcy of the Queuille government, and by the Communist-called coal strikes which were costing France $3,000,000 a day-almost exactly as much as she was getting from EGA. Overshadowing these factors was the growing realization of Frenchmen that the world conflict between Russia and the West could not be sidestepped. Frenchmen now applied this new view of the world struggle to their own national problems. The bright fiction of a "third force" between Communism and its opponents was dying hard -but it was dying...
...consent decree before a circuit court last week, U.S. Steel Corp. gave up a 24-year court fight to save the "Pittsburgh plus" basing-point system of setting steel prices. The company promised to adhere "to a pricing method that does not conflict with the requirements of the Federal Trade Commission." But U.S. Steel, which had voluntarily abandoned basing points when they were outlawed in the cement industry (TIME, July 19), had not given up the fight for good; it had merely shifted the battleground. What it had lost in the courts, Big Steel, and all other steelmakers, hoped...
...conflict between the U.S. and Russia ripe today...
There is no doubt that the U.S. and the Kremlin consider that they have conflicting vital interests. The Communists have always believed (and almost always said) that their mission is worldwide victory for their system; and that their own survival could not be assured in a world partly nonCommunist. Since the U.S. began to understand, about two years ago, that the Communists actually believed this, the U.S. has recognized its essential conflict with Russia...
Like the same studio's Miracle on 34th Street, the new picture is a fantasy in which a pixie (well played by Cecil Kellaway) takes sides in a conflict between two oversimplified sets of values. The conflict involves Newsman Tyrone Power, who must choose between Good (writing as he pleases for "nickels and dimes" and marrying lovely Anne Baxter) and Evil (selling out to New York Publishing Tycoon Lee J. Cobb and his predatory daughter, Jayne Meadows). Any leprechaun knows the difference between good & evil, but it takes some time for a stuffy hero to figure...