Word: eras
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great American era of the automobile came to a virtual end in 17 States along the Atlantic seaboard last week. Without any warning, the Office of Price Administration banned all pleasure and nonessential driving. At the same time, OPA cut the value of fuel oil coupons for home use by 10% and the amount of fuel oil for nonresidential purposes by 25%. Taken together, these orders brought about the greatest civilian dislocations to date...
Chang was trained to be a soldier. For years he fought under his kinsman, the overlord of Manchuria, Chang Tso-lin. Thereafter, in China's convulsive era of war lords, Chang Ching-hui traded his allegiance for whatever bowl of pottage smelled best at the time. In this respect he was only following the rule of most of the high-domed, mustachioed war lords...
...whether one asks finally what class in America among civilians has in fact given more to and taken least from the war effort. Production-wise 1942 was a year of miracles, not the least of which was the change that came over the economy when the illusory defense era ended. In 1940 and 1941 Government tried to tell business how to run its plants without itself going to war. Japan forced the issue. And when Government itself accepted war and made its acceptance palpable by offering huge specific military contracts, industry did not need to be told how to convert...
Crowned last week was the cleverest, scrappiest U.S. railroad king of the New Deal era. The new king was ruddy-faced, grey-haired, Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Chairman Robert Ralph Young, 45, who has direct or indirect control of 23,000 miles of track rambling through 21 States...
...inkpot was being washed away in the blood of the vine. At the same time they were making the acquaintance, firsthand, of the President who, succeeding to the far-Left regime of Lazaro Cardenas, had led Mexico back to the middle of the road in a new era of "evolution...