Word: equality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...range and thousands of gallons of Iraq-Persia oil to expend, General Anderson had to conduct his maneuvers on the great farm that is England, and ration his thirsty tanks to save shipping. He had to remember that a single armored division's exercises would destroy crops equal to one week's food for England. Consequently the First had very little training as an Army before it went off to the wars...
...William Harrison Standley, U.S. Ambassador to Moscow, no longer had cause to complain that the facts of Allied aid were being withheld from the Russians (TIME, March 15). The exchange of information and good will was two-way. In London, cinema audiences hailed a Russian film, Stalingrad, as the equal of Desert Victory, In the U.S., audiences and critics applauded MARCH OF TIME'S One Day of War, which had been derived from a longer Russian film, and the epic Siege of Leningrad...
...President last week signed a bill giving women doctors equal status with men in the Army & Navy. This is a step beyond World War I, when the few women doctors with the forces were hired under contract (like those already with the WAACs...
...Shame!" from other civilians and Government men bent on greater war production. The you-can't-do-that-to-me school kept the U.S. wasting precious materials much too long, delayed realistic decisions on how lean the U.S. economy could become. But the you-must-suffer school did equal damage by ignoring the obvious fact that a bedrock economy for the U.S. must be based upon the U.S. standard of living, the highest -and most mechanized - in the world...
...month these long-neglected facts had aroused the U.S. Congress. Balding, shrewd Senator Francis T. Maloney (D., Conn.) began hearings before the Banking & Currency Committee on a bill to establish a Civilian Supply Administration responsible only to Assistant President James Francis Byrnes. That would place the civilian on an equal shouting basis with the Army, Navy, et al., when the U.S. supply pie is sliced...