Word: furtherance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Would the U.S. public take further cuts, in addition to recent ones caused by huge military purchases? If so, the U.S. and Britain had a chance to win a prime peace aim-stable, democratic, friendly Governments on the near side of Europe. If not, a European food crisis might produce...
In all the world, only North Americans had a general diet level well above nutritional needs.* In all the world, only North Americans ate more food in wartime than before the war. This last was such an uncomfortably conspicuous fact in world politics that 1) Canada talked of resuming meat...
3) The Home-Fronters (War Food's Marvin Jones, Jimmy Byrnes, et al.) thought that any cut in soldier food or further heavy cuts in civilian supplies would be politically impossible and might hurt the war effort by cracking civilian morale.
France also had a complaint against Big Three manners. Foreign Minister Georges Bidault's Paris newspaper L'Aube had recently said: "Let us be perfectly frank: we want assurances that there will be no further Big Three conferences . . . without France." The French, in short, doubted that the Big...
A fourth source of irritation has resulted from her recently acquired interest in spastic paralysis, a disease in which damaged nerves cause uncoordinated movements. When she took four such cases into the Kenny Institute for treatment, local doctors had them removed. Sister Kenny soon resigned from the Institute. The Institute...