Word: implementation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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American's grey-haired, heavy-set president, Alexander Nesbitt Kemp is well aware that his company's action signifies more than ambitious appetite. Two months ago, American and 15 other domestic lines trumpeted a policy of free postwar competition, signed an agreement to implement it. Pan American Airways and American Export Airlines, which now fly the North Atlantic, did not sign. Pan Am fears the results of a wholesale postwar competitive scramble among U.S. airlines while foreign countries operate through a government-backed "chosen instrument." Export has said nothing. American is the first of the big lines...
Last week the War Department took the first comprehensive step to help indus try to get out from under its terrifying load when the time comes. It established an overall policy to cover termination of all Army contracts. It also set up simple, workable regulations to implement it. The policy will not have to wait until war's end to be tested. It is being tested now; already contract cancellations and production cutbacks caused by the changing needs of war, or oversupply, total billions...
...harpoon for Pan Am came in a statement of policy: "There can be no rational basis for permitting" air transport outside the U.S. to be "left to the withering influence of monopoly." To implement the new "free" policy, the 16 airlines served notice on CAB that they will promptly file petitions for permission to operate worldwide air routes...
...should have achieved 50 years ago-total democracy in the United States." Congress must enact a "new Federal civil-rights statute." It must outlaw the poll tax in Federal elections and "Jim Crowism on all types of interstate carriers." It must pass a "Federal anti-lynching statute." To implement this policy, it must use the bludgeon of hard cash. All Government grants to states and communities, both for war and postwar industries, housing developments, down to "every concern from which the Government purchases so much as a lead pencil," must be made on the "condition of non-discrimination." The teeth...
...Roman Catholic bishops of Germany raised their corporate voice against religious persecution by the Third Reich. But this time both the character of their complaint (made last December) and the means of its publication (last week by U.S. official OWI) seemed more shrewdly calculated than ever before to implement their attack on the antireligious phases of Nazi philosophy...