Word: happeners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back in the teeth of half the nation winter flung an old, unheeded warning. Some people, unconvinced that the inevitable would happen, had not bothered to apply for fuel-oil rations. Some had already used up their quotas. And when winter's first frigid spell dropped thermometers toward the lowest point in 15 years (in Minneapolis) or 60 years (in Detroit) or any recorded year (in Pittsburgh), oil reserves ran dangerously...
Britain's new Minister of Aircraft Production, socialistic Sir Stafford Cripps, last week took control of a big aircraft factory near London and installed a new manager. An editorial in Labor's Daily Herald showed how it could happen there...
...Pearl Harbor happen and I know what the General meant when he said "There need be no pangs of conscience...
...because it's been proved that our intelligence is equal to men's doesn't mean that it lies in the same direction, any more than you'd expect a lawn mower and a sewing machine to do the same work simply because they both happen to be good machines...
...best, imperfect and was diluted by much hypocrisy and materialism. But the churches had driven basic Christian principles into the consciousness of a sufficient number of persons so that they could and did lift our national action onto a somewhat moral plane. That is what I desire to see happen again...