Word: equality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...states with multimillion populations made remarkably equal sacrifices. New York lost 31,215 in the Army (or 23.2 men per 10,000 of population, against a national average of 23.4). Pennsylvania lost 26,554 (26.8 per 10,000); Illinois, 18,061 (22.9); and Texas-which many Texans thought had suffered more heavily...
...from Scratch. The new papers were skimpy, one-sheet affairs, but they had great virtues: they were "poor but honest," born equal, and edited for the most part by courageous young resistance men who had fought for their chance of survival...
...signatures on the Tyding-McDuffie Act of independence. From the viewpoint of a trustee country that has invested great sums and thousands of lives in Philippine independence it is scarcely consistent to threaten that independence with eventual, if slow, strangulation. And is this new entity to compete on equal terms with Japanese or British colonial enterprise if it must continually scramble to avert economic tragedy in the sugar market...
Britain's sharp-worded, sharp-witted critic George Orwell thus paraphrased the philosophy of the Soviet state: "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." Last week Russia, which long ago branded equality as "egalitarian" heresy, took another step toward hierarchy. True to Philosopher Yudin's axiom that to preserve the Red Army means to preserve the state, Generalissimo Stalin issued a whip-cracking new set of army regulations. The statutes ordered Red warriors to "respect seniors in command . . . observe strictly military conduct and the salute...
...independents by closing some of his weaker competing chain stores and offering independents the benefit of United's mass purchasing power. Last week Dart carried this plan even further. He put the 10,000 independent Rexall stores, which hold exclusive franchises for United's products, on an equal footing with the company-owned chain stores. United will now help finance the expansion programs of any affiliated druggists who want to grow, hopes thus to build Dart's chain of super drugstores...