Word: existent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these rights," concluded the President, "spell security. . . . True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence." Some druggists on Capitol Hill thought the handwriting on the prescription seemed strangely familiar-identical, in fact, with that of the late Dr. New Deal. Perhaps, like the author of Sherlock Holmes, the old fellow's creator might feel that popular demand required at least temporary resuscitation...
Raiding the Home Front. Having failed to defeat the Russians before winter, the German Army was forced to raid the home front merely to exist. Great collections of clothes were taken up, German workers were called out of the factories and sent to the training camps, the Government offices were combed out, and foreign labor-the potential "Trojan horse" that all Germans fear-was imported to keep the productive machine going...
Obviously disturbed by the pro-Fascist elements in the Villarroel regime, Dr. Lozada is well aware that nothing like U.S. democracy can now exist in Bolivia, where only 100,000 of some 3,500,000 people have the vote. But, within Bolivian limits, he was trying to make the new Government toe the democratic mark. One move was to cable five conditions which the regime would have to meet before he would serve as its official representative...
Under far greater pressures England had increased her production only some 20%. And there, where the standard of living had been lower than in the U.S., war took 15% from the civilian economy. In Russia and in Germany the civilian economy almost ceased to exist. But in the U.S. the fabulous war-production job had been so fabulously well done that economists claimed that the American standard was one-sixth higher than...
With the doors and windows locked against it, inflation has thus been tunneling under the house, in a new manner. Low-income consumers do not benefit from a tight ceiling on a commodity that does not exist. But every union dues-payer knows that the lack of merchandise in the low-price brackets is a main factor in the cost of living...