Word: dependence
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Freedom in America does not depend on the outcome of struggles for material power between other nations...
...needs. . . . We have in this country only about a half-year's supply of rubber. . . . Wool and tin are also short. . . . The U.S. has little more than a thimbleful of high-grade chromite deposits from which to make ferrochrome, the master alloy in stainless and chrome steels. Supplies depend on the sea lanes and tons of chromite are already piling up in Rhodesia and New Caledonia for lack of ships. . . . The Government's Metals Reserve Company, belatedly building a stockpile, had 422,000 tons on order, only 31,700 tons delivered...
...Kawai, who does not mind being photographed in his pajamas or under the shower. Minister Kawai announced in Adelaide that he was tired of hearing the word "drive" to describe Japan's intentions. Asked whether Japan would move southward as far as Australia, Mr. Kawai said that would depend on the provocation. Asked whether Australia had been provocative, he said there had been a few pinpricks. Asked whether Japan desired territorial expansion toward the Indies, he said territorial expansion was an old-fashioned phrase...
...short, the definition of the Western Hemisphere, as posterity would know it, would depend on what geographer history consulted last...
...Wall Street Journal: "Profits ... are not the business of Mr. Henderson." Leon remained philosophical. "The honeymoon is over," he told a Congressional committee. He prepared to set price ceilings for the whole auto industry when the new model year begins. His present powers (which, apart from his jawbone, depend on the vague and drastic commandeering powers of the President) may by then be supplemented by specific legislative teeth...