Word: establishments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With such a reformation, Chuck Luckman foresaw a rosy future. He told the super-marketeers: "Your business ... can and should double during the next generation if the leadership of American business is willing to establish as its objective for 1970 a standard of living for the American wage-earners which is at least 100% higher than the level of today...
...another period of spiritual bankruptcy were to be foisted upon the United States and the world. What is called for is a 'tough-minded idealism,' to borrow Mr. Conant's phrase, that will utilize the moral and idealistic energy generated during the war for peacetime social goals, that will establish practical aims for common action. "Tough-minded idealists" are needed to lead and implement such a program. Only thus may this country preserve its moral leader shop among nations and continue to lead the way to peace and well-being...
...cent, and a consequent paring of appropriations for all government projects, including an Army and Navy engaged in vital Occupation duties. Further Republican proposals in this revival of the Crystal Palace era of laissez-faire include shelving of the minimum-wage bill and President Truman's measure to establish a Federal health insurance program, both of which were introduced in the last Congressional session...
...youthful diplomat had to reiterate his statements after the lecture when, in a question-and-answer period, an audience spokesman requested assurance that the Austrians would establish a democratic government if freed from Allied military occupation, and again when a second questioner was skeptical about Nazi influence in Austria...
...Copenhagen FAO conference in September, U.S. Under Secretary of Agriculture Norris E. Dodd (a onetime AAA administrator) violated State Department instructions by plumping "in principle" for the Orr plan, which would 1) stabilize prices of agricultural commodities on world markets; 2) establish a world food reserve for emergencies, and 3) provide funds to finance disposal of surpluses to needy nations...