Word: free
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...loud-roaring Hearst press, should pointedly recall the $3.75 billion U.S. loan to Britain, which the British had long since run through, and more than a billion dollars worth of ECAid, which had kept the British going so far. It was also natural that the press of a capitalist, free-enterprising democracy should blame Britain's Socialist government and its works (e.g., nationalization of coal and railroads, the billion-dollar-a-year health plan) for a lot of Britain's trouble. U.S. press comment ranged from the thoughtful view that Britain's Socialist regime had merely aggravated...
Before the U.S. press had got very far, the British hit the ceiling. War Secretary Emanuel Shinwell, who like most other Labor leaders has been free in his denunciation of free-enterprise capitalism as practiced in the U.S., last week cried petulantly: "Our magnificent efforts in the past are being overlooked." Cried the tabloid pro-Laborite Sunday Pictorial: "It is fair to say that the British are riled; in fact, we are damned annoyed...We British are tired of Yankee insults...
...with Shovels. Siam's people had reason to be cheerful. Since the middle of the 18th Century their country has been free from foreign rule (except for the Japanese occupation during World War II). The Siamese feel no smoldering resentment against any former colonial masters, are also happy because their country is comparatively rich and not overcrowded. Yet all of its cheerfulness cannot shield Siam from the crosswinds of Communist insurrection which blow across the border from Burma, Indo-China and Malaya...
...Pliatsiko [loot]," grinned grimy, battle-worn Private Pavlides of the Third Rimini Brigade. He was at Pyxos, the former Communist headquarters of "Free Greece," which the Greek national army captured last week from the retreating Red guerrillas. Pavlides and his comrades were joyfully poking around among the neat little pine-board chalets (which had housed Nico Zachariades, John Ioannides and other Communist guerrilla leaders), looking for equipment and stores left behind by the fleeing Reds. They found everything from Czech motorcycles and electric sewing machines to frilly underwear for the andartissa (female guerrillas...
...Dose of Free Enterprise. The turn may have come last winter when, with almost no dollars left, the Argentine state-trading system cracked up. Bruce insisted that there was nothing wrong that a small dose of free enterprise could not correct. Cautiously, the government moved to ease some state trade controls...