Word: happens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Students at Oxford, too, were amused by the blackout preparations made by their own colleges, until German demolition bombs aimed at a nearby factory nearly blew their heavy stone buildings to bits. The indifference of certain Harvard men towards tonight's trial is remindful of the "it can't happen here" psychology once current in Hawaii...
What would happen to the pocketbooks of the country if Morgenthau didn't take the money out in taxes is good material for a major nightmare. What purchasing power the people could keep would be undermined by a wage-price spiral; small business would be wiped out by the sky-rocketing of wholesale prices; and Washington alone would have enough lucre to make even the smallest investment...
...hrer, he said, promised to remember Japan in his will, by instructing the Germans "to bind themselves eternally to the Japanese spirit." In fact, General Yamashita was so hopped up that he said: "In a short time, something great will happen. You just watch and wait...
...humble opinion, since Genoa was Genoa, no other man has been born so magnanimous and so keen in practical navigation as the above-mentioned Lord Admiral: for, when navigating, by only looking at a cloud or by night at a star he knew what was going to happen and whether there would be foul weather; he himself both conned and steered at the helm; and when the storm had passed over, he made sail while others were sleeping...
...this is probably the most unpopular time a post-war "planner" could pick to air his findings. But if anyone thinks that we will be able to take those problems in our stride when we come to them, he had better take a gander at what is going to happen to the so-called "industry of the future," when the smoke clears away...