Word: due
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rich Land. The people's calm acceptance of this kind of campaign, and their obvious weariness of the sound of political firebells in the night, were due in part to the country's prosperity. Despite inflation and record retail buying ($10 billion a month), U.S. citizens would put $12 billion in the bank in 1948 as compared with $8.8 billion last year, and $2.7 billion in 1939. Employment still stood at the 60 million mark. Materially, the U.S. was rich-richer than any nation had ever been in the history of the world...
...green blanket over the rubble. Large new neon signs began to appear, and at night-when darkness hid the war scars-Frankfurt's Bahnhofsplatz looked like a corner of Times Square. Shop windows were full of goods. Once surly salesmen now treated the customer with the respect due a man who had real money in his pockets...
...armed struggle in Athens is lagging behind. The mass movement there is sluggish. This is due to Athens Communist leadership...
Under FTC's rotation system, Mason is due to become FTC chairman next January (for one year) but privately he fears that the other members* will stop rotating if he does not shut up. Nevertheless, this week Mason kept on talking. "Down in my shop," he told the Boston Conference on Distribution, "it seems as though business is a pretty bad thing." Then he recited another jingle...
...After Due Warning. In Birmingham, England, William Bowson discovered that the falling board which hit him on the head and knocked the cigarette out of his mouth was a "No Smoking" sign...