Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...equally essential in the fullest sense of that much abused word, to the winning of the peace. The choice is clear and inescapable, and future generations will judge us on our decision. Have we the intestinal fortitude to forego a little-how pitifully little !-present comfort for immense future gain? I think, I hope, that most Americans, when they realize fully the situation, will do the wise, the generous, the intelligent thing. Newspapers, periodicals, the radio have a grave public responsibility in educating the public conscience and intelligence in this matter...
...great uncertainty lay in the political future. If Philippine independence becomes a fact in 1946, it will be a hollow gain unless the U.S. grants a preferential tariff on Philippine products. In prewar years the U.S. bought 82% of the Philippine exports, worth $256,000,000 a year. But a high tariff would cut this to a trickle, leave the Philippines to begin a search for new markets...
Last week came old Vienna's turn on the Nazi torture rack. The Germans had willed that the city of 2,000,000 Austrians should die as Budapest had died - slowly, to gain a little more time for Naziism. But this week it seemed that the Red Army would foil that murder by swift conquest. Vienna might escape death, though it would be gravely wounded...
...main defense position, a line drawn across the island just north of Naha. From concrete pillboxes, hillside caves and ravines, murderous machine-gun fire raked their lines. The heaviest concentration of Japanese artillery of the Pacific war backed up the small arms. While marines in the north continued to gain 2,000 and 3,000 yards a day against little opposition, the soldiers were slowed to 200-yard jumps...
Officers who have served with him report him a friendly, helpful, confiding commander, likely to grow stern when things go wrong. Almost all of them gain the impression that he is several inches taller than his actual 5 ft. n. A six-inch chest expansion helps...