Word: evil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...alternative which most Americans preferred not to think of, even in the privacy of their own minds-World War III. The success or failure of the meeting was in a large measure up to one man-Joseph Stalin. Who was this man in whose hands, for good or evil, lay so heavy a responsibility for the world's destiny...
...price rollbacks were greeted by cries of anguish from converters and garment manufacturers. But OPA stood firm, prepared to unlimber its big guns on the biggest evil of all in the textile price situation. OPA's target: the upgrading of cloth and garments by converters and by style experts who, by adding an extra print, or a fancy ruffle, have vaulted ceiling prices and upped their profits 800 to 1,400% since war began...
...discussing the topic, "The Power of the Press for Good and Evil," Robertson told the gathering: "The power of the press is a pretty significant power at this particular time, and it can shape our lives to a large extent. I'm afraid that the press is going to use that power as it has in the past to misinform the people on vital issues...
...Guns. The flow of money was a necessary evil to the manufacture of astronomical numbers of guns, shells, tanks, etc. By early 1944, the miracles of production were no longer news. Nor were the men who performed them. The men of the year in business could be numbered by hundreds...
...many men for the first time considered as a practical possibility was one which commonly goes by an inadequate name: full employment. Its implication is not only a job for everyone who wants to work but also continuous full productivity for the economic machine and the abolition of an evil which mankind has long considered far less avoidable than war: depression. In 1944, the U.S. made a platitude of the question: "If everyone can have a job in war, why not in peace...