Word: hardships
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said Bowles cheerfully: "[The new policy] means quicker settlement of wage problems. It means prompt price relief where hardship exists. . . . It means that the way is cleared for all-out production." What was more to the point, he finally admitted what businessmen have been wearily saying: OPA's cost absorption policy has reached its limits in many an industry, including household furniture, low-cost clothing and household appliances...
...full-fledged members. The Anglo-American Commission of Inquiry on Jewish problems, which arrived in Cairo last week, had found that 600,000 out of 750,000 Jews in European D.P. camps were, in Judge Simon H. Rifkind's phrase, "unrepentant Zionists," despite the struggle and the hardship awaiting them in Palestine...
...painless way of meeting commitments to export six million tons of wheat by July i, flour millers last week began to extract 80% of the wheat kernel instead of the customary 68 to 72%. This was no great hardship for U.S. citizens. What the new flour* lost in snowy whiteness it would gain in nutritive value; U.S. bread, usually flat, poor stuff, would gain in taste...
...plan was basically concerned with permanent conventional building to assure first veterans, then non-veteran hardship cases, of real homes. Of the 1,200,000 houses planned for 1946, at least 700,000 would be permanent. No temporary dwellings of any kind were included in the 1,500,000 which he planned to build...
Facts & Fancies. The inaudible facts were simple. It was true that the Jews were fleeing Poland-fleeing the memories of past terror and the reality of present hardship. It seemed true that Zionist "underground railroads" were helping them. It was not true that most of the refugees were well-fed or rosy-cheeked...