Word: extention
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there must be some place for a man who is willing to work and who wants to become a part of your organization." A seaman second class was even more determined: "For my own part, I have resolved that my happiness in future work will depend to a large extent on whether I can be a useful member of an organization which works in the interest of humanity." These observations can mean only that a majority of these veterans want jobs that will give them a chance to do more than just make a living. They say, frankly, that they...
Steel and Friendship. U.S. Economist Calvin Hoover's recent recommendation that Germany be allowed to keep much of her heavy industry had an unexpected effect. When the U.S. press denounced the Hoover report, the Russians realized the extent of U.S. sentiment for a "hard" peace. In the subsequent efforts to set a temporary level for annual German steel production, the Russians and Americans finally agreed on eight million tons; the British held out for twelve million. The row brought the U.S. and Russian representatives on the Allied Control Council closer together than they had been in weeks. The British...
...Army was not in a state of revolt. But Russia's rulers were audibly disturbed. President Mikhail Kalinin himself recently took note of returning Red Army men's complaints that they could find nothing to buy. The veterans, he admitted, to a certain extent were impressed by German "petty culture." Then he gave some serious advice to Party propagandists and agitators who would have to deal, among other things, with veterans no longer happy at home...
...examination of the contents of the proposed general education courses, the Committee may refer to the detailed plans drawn up in the 1940 Council report. In any event, the present Committee will probably have to lean, to a great extent, on the reports it has, by implication, thus far scorned. The authors of those reports worked, without $60,000, nearly as hard as the University Committee on the Objectives of a General Education in a Free Society...
...wiser to put some of our good intentions into cold storage and wait for more favorable circumstance. I wonder if we are not attempting too much at present. I would advise patience-go slow. A little later it might be possible to solve these questions to a larger extent, if not completely. There is a temper in the world today which makes the solution of these questions almost impossible...