Word: crucially
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...significant that while in the election year 1940 "Big Government" is a topic of heated controversy, this representative group of writers assumes as inevitable the extension of the government sphere of influence: "Government today is compelled to control crucial new areas of public activity. The public service thus becomes an essential instrument for creating a better America...
...every newsman on the Willkie train knew, Wendell Willkie would rather be right than be President. To gain 10,000 votes in a crucial area he would not compromise a single belief. Willkie's conviction of rightness, coupled with his understanding of the seriousness of the times, had led him deliberately to take an attitude of sober seriousness. Day in & day out, he refused to make fireworks speeches. It was not that he couldn't; he wouldn't. He clung almost mulishly to his conviction that plain, serious talk will convince the voters, for the voters...
...protect their investments (missionary enterprise) abroad, how to cooperate with other churches. Like the U. S., they also have domestic problems: the financing of a crisis-upped budget, family relationships, youth problems, how to safeguard their conscientious objectors and support U. S. preparedness. Above these rises the crucial spiritual question of how Episcopalians, along with other churches, can make Christianity once again the cornerstone of the American life...
...year's supply of rubber and not much more tin. Rubber futures jittered upwards to 20.4? a lb. in U. S. markets last week; black pepper to 3.86? a lb. Wool futures also rose to $1.175 a lb., implicating Australia. Unquoted on any organized market, but nonetheless crucial to U. S. defense, was quinine, of which the U. S. has none too much on hand. Practically all cinchona bark (from which quinine is made) comes from The Netherlands East Indies...
...second Forum of Executive Opinion (TIME, Sept. 2), FORTUNE chose the crucial subject of U. S. rearmament. The 15,000 top-flight U. S. business executives on the Forum's permanent panel were asked how they thought the defense program was getting along. By a large majority (73.5%) they replied: the defense program is not doing so well...