Word: graveness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Control of economic and financial acts which may disturb international peace. (". . . All people are subject to grave risk, as long as any single Government may, by unilateral action, disrupt the flow of world trade. . . . The world requires that the areas of economic interdependence be dealt with in the interest of all concerned...
There to a symphony orchestra which rehearses downstairs, a jazz band that makes life miserable one flight up. The undergraduate Student Council has its offices there; so does the local draft board. Service may not yet be cradle to grave, but it is well...
Ersatz Beveridge. In London last week, the sun pouring through the windows of Claridge's ballroom illuminated the kindly, beaked old face of Sir William Beveridge, author of the British "cradle-to-grave" social security report,† whose principle Parliament has adopted. Sir William, explaining his 200,000-word plan to Americans in London, admitted that it will be feasible financially only if the peace is made to bring full employment to the British people. His next task: to draft a plan to lick postwar unemployment. To that end, he will soon visit the U.S. and Canada to study...
WASHINGTON -- President Roosevelt today sent to Congress a revolutionary plan to achieve "freedom from want" through unprecedented government influence over the nation's post-war economy and an immediately expanding "cradle-to-the-grave" social security system...
...situation is grave," Gen. Charles de Gaulle, Fighting French leader, told the United Press. "The Allies should land as soon as possible...