Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Almost everybody except hardshell pacifists agreed that the U.S. must be stronger than before World War II. But what kind of military strength should the U.S. have? Was universal military training an indispensable part of this strength...
...Except for the assurance that France would try to stop cheapening of the pound, the French went ahead with the" Mayer plan. They pegged the "official franc" at about 214 to the dollar for use in the export-import trade, planned to set up a free market for trading in dollars...
...over a year, Italian Socialists (except a small, staunch group under Saragat which seceded in January 1947) have slavishly cooperated with the Communists. Now, with its head in the lion's mouth, the Socialist Party would have to decide whether to crawl right down the lion's throat: if it entered the front, its candidates would appear on joint Communist-Socialist ballots in the Italian national elections next April...
...started to rise sharply (see chart). Earnings on the Dow-Jones industrial stocks in 1947 had matched the 1929 level. Yet the average price was only slightly more than half as high. Investors had good reason to shy away from war babies and those that had never made money except in boom times. But, by prices alone, no one could tell last week which were war-and boom-babies, and which were likely to be consistent performers...
...good bite of that future, however, has been successfully digested, and the rest of the season, except for highly-seasoned Army, is on the platter...