Word: functional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...linen jacket. Though only 35, he is a veteran Communist. Nine years in Fascist jails have shrunk his face, left his eyes deepset in sallow sockets. His line is conciliation: "If we Communists were in power in Italy today, we would not destroy private property. Private property has its function to fulfill in Italy for years & years to come...
...expect to find the capitalist in your shop. . . . Look for him on the golf course. It is there that he will tell you that without him, the industry could not function...
...piping days of German-Russian war collaboration, 1939-41 (see cut). But the Soviet Union had also developed another kind of economic pincers-the so-called "joint company." The pattern was 50-50 ownership by the Soviet Union and the local government, 100% administration by Soviet-picked executives. The function of the joint companies was to keep goods flowing into Russia. Through the joint-stock company and alleged reparations, Moscow had seized drum-tight control over...
Whatever course it takes, it is to the University's self-interest to see that Class Albums do not cease to fulfill their traditional function. And at the very least the University should refrain from making the problems of publication any more difficult. Withholding purveyor lists at this time is something like stepping on the fingers of a man hanging over a cliff-he may hang on, but his chances of salvation are not increased...
...Donations to charity can no longer be called the primary function of the Service Fund; the support of the Council activities has now become of equal importance," Weld continued. "The Council is no longer an informal center for collections, but the nucleus of a larger working organization...