Word: equality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President got most of his relaxation from occasional swims in the White House pool, had little time for outside entertainment. But Mrs. Truman took her place in the Washington social whirl, proved herself equal to the rigors of teas, dinners and receptions. At one crowded affair an ample and obviously uncomfortable dowager approached to inquire, "My, aren't you warm?" The First Lady replied: "Most certainly not. I find it very comfortable." Last week she held her first formal White House party (for wives of the diplomatic set), planned a tea for newspaperwomen this week. She also found time...
...reason for this rate-raising is that the railroads of the South and West, having much less traffic, presumably could not bear equalization if it were achieved entirely by cutting their rates. Thus equal economic opportunity for the South and West is to be secured, not by their taking two steps forward, but by their taking one step forward and the East taking one step back...
...Much. On May 1 U.S. warehouses bulged with 11,000,000 bales of cotton (an increase of 705,000 bales in a year), equal to about two years' supply of cotton. Meanwhile cotton consumption by U.S. mills continued to slide from its peak. (The mills used 769,678 bales during April v. 857,693 bales a year ago.) Yet by the peculiar nonsense called parity, prices for raw cotton climbed to 23? a pound-a new high for the last 15 years...
Agreement Imperative. Before the new plan can be put into effect, the Congress party and the Moslem League must agree to equal representation in the Executive Council. The Moslems, who are outnumbered by the Hindus, like this idea.* Bhulabhai Desai, Congress leader in the Assembly (TIME, March 19) with whom Viscount Wavell reportedly discussed this question, hopes that the Congress party will also agree. But diehard nationalists may hold out against British control of finance and of defense...
...Pietro's record of combat, its eye for terrain and for weather, its recognition of war as a science both wonderful and tragically inexact, are at least equal to any seen in films so far. But its great distinction is its constant, bitter, admiring, pitying awareness of human beings...