Word: establishments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...getting from French Indo-China. It was reasonable, before accepting Japan's demands for increased immigration quotas, to ask Japan to fill the existing quota (which Japan had so far failed to do by 300 immigrants annually). Finally, it was reasonable to grant the Japanese permission to establish an airline from Tokyo to Batavia if Japan granted the Dutch permission to fly the identical route...
...When some further emergency forces the President of the United States to act as seriously as he talks, and to establish a War Policy Board whose only function is to checkmate the might of Hitler's Germany with every resource of brain, heart and hand that America possesses, we may then possibly see ... not only . . . how we are to win our gigantic battle but what we shall do with the fruits of peace and plenty which it will finally bring...
Welles regards all extremes as ridiculous. To him the problem of post-war peace is primarily diplomatic: arrange means whereby trade will flow freely throughout the world, establish by negotiation an international diplomacy based on the Good Neighbor policy, insure the domination of the world by the Western Hemisphere, and the quiet but definite domination of the Western Hemisphere...
...minute conferences between Congressional leaders and Price Boss Leon Henderson. By the time the miserable compromise dropped into the legislative hopper, its only teeth were false. No one apparently realized the basic fact that inflation is an overall thing, uncontrollable in bits & pieces. The bill authorized the President to establish maximum prices for any commodities on the basis of prevailing prices of July 29, adjustable according to other factors (speculative fluctuations, general cost increases, etc.). All prices thus established are finally reviewable by a special three-judge appeals court and by the Supreme Court on certiorari...
...unhindered, the crickets come down from the peaks in catastrophic billions. Birds gorge on them, but more billions survive. They march over fences, over houses. They tumble into streams in writhing heaps until they establish a living bridge to the other bank. Crossing farmers' fields, they leave no leaf or kernel uneaten...