Word: equality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trip to the China front is always an adventure. It is a bastard combination of hitchhiking by airplane, truck and jeep over a supply line roughly equal to the distance between London and Berlin. It is climaxed always by inevitable concluding hours on foot. It rarely takes less than a week to get to the point of contact in China and usually takes a fortnight. For there is only one road, one zone of maneuver, and along that road all the motley personnel of this curious theater must travel...
Hardest pill for the Congress party to swallow was the clause in the Wavell Plan (TIME, May 21) fixing equal representation for Moslems and caste Hindus in the new Executive Council. Congress preferred organizational parity with the Moslem League; otherwise, it argued, its many Moslem members (e.g., President Azad) would have to look to the League instead of to Congress for representation. But Moslem League President Mohamed Ali Jinnah liked the parity plan as proposed, made no comment...
...refrigerators, 155,797 washing machines, in the third quarter of this year. WPB expects to grant more priorities in the next Jew weeks to bring total third-quarter production of refrigerators to 265,000, total washing machines to 350,000. The price of the refrigerators, said WPB, will be "equal to or lower than" the average prewar levels...
...tribal and frontier matters") will be Indian-administered. India's diplomatic service abroad will be staffed by Indians. equal proportions of Moslems and caste Hindus."
Report. WPB announced proudly that U.S. steelmaking capacity has reached a yearly level of over 95 million tons (almost equal to the world's steel production in 1935). Other steel facts: 1) the $2 billion cost of the expansion (15 million tons since 1941) was borne about equally by business and government; 2) western steel capacity is now 4,900,000 tons-about 5% of the U.S. total; 3) plate steel capacity, a probable headache after the war, is up six to 13 million tons annually...