Word: government
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...talk is of a cut to 50%. Some alarmists said the Govern-ment would take over the whole business-buying, selling and distributing. OPA big shots wondered how to ration coffee, tentatively planned to use the sugar cards, already distributed. But U.S. citizens were worried most of all-with gin, Coca-Cola, tea and coffee all scarce or near-scarce, the future had a milk & water look...
...full pontifical robes to confront the startled aviators and demand respect for his Church and flock. Then the Japs flew away and Bishop Wade ran the islands unmolested until last month, when they came in force and put him in jail. They soon learned that they could not govern with out him and set him free to maintain the peace...
...fellow Americans may think that they should be treated as political prisoners. The Federal officials who are administering this camp are very courteous and considerate toward all of us. We do not have a jail here yet, and the administration says that it will try to let the Japanese govern themselves as much as possible. A report that the evacuees here will not be paid more than $21 a month did very little, if any, damage to the morale of the evacuees. They are now saying that since they are being well housed, well fed and protected by the Government...
...must abandon the idea that seniority means quality. We have already found it necessary to issue many orders and directives to govern the conduct of industry and the public. We shall undoubtedly find it necessary to issue many more--to present common standards of conduct for the guidance of all concerned...
...enough. Thur man Arnold, flushed with power, called it "harmless but useful." Cried he, "Patents [are] the protective coloration of the worst economic abuses of mechanized industry. ... If we strip the patent power of its use as ... a regulatory device by which large corporations create cartels to govern domestic and international economic policy−it may become what it was intended to be under the Constitution, a method of advancing the progress of sci- ence and the useful arts." Many a student of U.S. patent law and practice figured that, at that point, Thur an Arnold was cooking with...