Word: directness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unquestionably, there are chances to expand the $200 million figure through Russian exports to other nations which, in turn, would export to the U.S. But the amount of U.S. steel, machine tools, electrical and transportation equipment, etc. that Russia can pay for by direct and indirect exports to the U.S. seemed hardly likely to exceed $1 billion a year...
Constitutional Amendment. In contrast to the illiberal and unratified 1937 Constitution, the "Additional Act" provided for a republican form of government, direct suffrage by all Brazilians except soldiers over 18 years of age. But it still maintained the President's present power to decree certain laws and to dissolve the Chamber of Deputies. It kept the government in control of labor unions and said not a word about abolishing the hated Press & Propaganda Department...
Greater Boston's new Veterans' Administration Guidance Center soon to be opened at the University will have little direct effect upon Harvard's present program to aid and advice returning servicemen, declared Payson S. Wild, Jr., associate professor of Government and counsellor for veterans...
Richard Wright, 36, is generally accounted the most gifted living American Negro writer. His new book makes it clearer than ever that he has one of the most notable gifts in U.S. writing, black or white: a narrative style that is simple, direct, almost completely without pretense or decoration, yet never flat. In Black Boy, that narrative tells the story of his first 1 8 years, in Natchez and Jackson, Miss., Elaine, Ark. and on Beale Street in Memphis. The story is a brilliant account of how it feels to be a sensitive Negro growing up in the U.S. South...
...They had been flown by Navy plane to Guam, sent by radio to San Francisco. News traveled even quicker, thanks to a radio transmitter which the Navy had installed on a warship a mile off the Iwo shore. Each day U.S. readers and radio listeners thus got the direct reports of newsmen on the scene...