Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Worldwide totalitarianism after the war, regardless of which side wins, is the grim picture painted by Pitirim A. Sorokin, professor of Sociology. "Whether it is changed on paper or not," he said, "the Constitution of the United States will be radically altered in the post-war period. America will probably even abandon the two-party system of government...
...World War I, the deadly dance of the prices doubled the war bill of the nation. With this grim lesson in mind, the Administration last April appointed bushel-bellied Leon Henderson as Price Boss. Henderson had no real authority to enforce his price ceilings-or at best, questionable authority. But he had seen the interrelated whole of U.S. industry from the topmost contemporary vantage point, the TNEC's two years and nine months of study. Backed by public opinion, Henderson kept prices down by bluff and loud talk...
Last week people in the U.S. could read about the germination of this strangest of all the war's campaigns. Just published was a book by an ace reporter,* which told a grim and exciting story of the brief Balkan campaign. Robert St. John, then an A.P. man in Belgrade, followed the campaign from Yugoslavia to Egypt. What he has to say reads less like history than like a huge, super-delayed, super-exciting news dispatch...
...other Allies, the Chinese and the Dutch, the strategy would mean a grim alternative-surrender or death...
What is a submarine menace? It is certainly not the scatter-aim, hope-to-hit show that Jap subs have put on off the Pacific Northwest. It is, in 1942, a grim thing...