Word: depending
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What he had to say was this: due to its position as a continental island between Asia and Europe, the survival of the U.S. has always depended, and always will depend, on maintaining a balance of power in Europe and Asia. Whenever that balance is seriously unbalanced, the U.S. must fight. Also, due to the U.S. geographic position, there have always been two opposed geopolitical theories as to where and when to fight. One theory is interventionism, which maintains that the fight must be fought in Asia and Europe, with the help of European and Asiatic allies. The other theory...
...character is destiny, what is the character of England now? Her present character may well show whether or not her imperial supremacy-which endured from Queen Elizabeth to Queen Elizabeth-can once again be saved in an hour of peril. And on that destiny-of-character may also largely depend, if her supremacy is almost over, what kind of world the U.S. will presently have to cope with. The following dispatch, by one of TIME's correspondents, is an attempt to estimate England's character-her spirit, her feelings, her attitudes-in the cold wet weather of defeat...
Benny's plight has not been shared by those of his rivals who depend on punch rather than finesse-particularly ex-Hoofer Bob Hope, who has been going great guns before soldier audiences. Last week Hope put on his tenth straight broadcast from a training camp (location censored). Benny has found that incalculable whoops and whistles upset his expertly worried lines. No ad-libber, he has to stick to his painfully prepared script, feels that a lot of mugging thrown in for a visual audience is a sin against his radio listeners...
...Stafford had paused in Cairo to talk with Britain's Middle Eastern command, whose task may depend greatly on his work. Indian developments seemed to favor that work. After committee meetings, the Indian National Congress party, which has demanded complete independence, appeared to be in a receptive mood. Congress' Mohandas Gandhi spoke with easy informality of Sir Stafford: "I once had the pleasure of meeting him. The one thing we had in common is that he is a food faddist [vegetarian...
...Biggest market declines came in companies like Du Pont, Eastman Kodak, Dow Chemical, International Business Machines, whose conservative fiscal methods, progressiveness and aggressiveness had made them blue chips. Under the Treasury-proposed tax program, these sound peacetime policies will hardly pay; "excess profits" will be taxed 89%. Net will depend very little on good management now, very largely on how much money was earned five years ago or how much money was sunk in the company a generation back...