Word: join
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American Legion has regarded all this with a rather testy eye. AMVETS makes no bones of its hopes that the untapped millions in the armed forces will form their own postwar organization, rather than join the Legion...
...live in harmony with the rest of the world after the war, it must face the fact that international free competition is dead-it must join international economic cartels and make them serve the public interest. This unpopular opinion, directly opposed to that of the Administration,* was expressed in the November Harper's by New Dealing Milo Perkins, onetime executive director of the Board of Economic Warfare and heretofore a staunch advocate of free enterprise...
Said Perkins: "We Americans preach free competition but we don't really practice what we preach. We moralize about the competitive way, and then cling to tariff schedules so high that foreign businessmen cannot enter the U.S. market. . . . A sizable part of American business will want to join cartels after the war to protect its domestic market, and . . . popular opinion will back such a move [because] we are still under the delusion that the way to be prosperous is to sell as much as we can abroad and to buy as little as we can from abroad...
...Corps, which had made the northern (right flank) landing on the eastern shore, pushed inland after capturing the capital city of Tacloban, where Philippines President Sergio Osmeña promptly set up his provisional capital. Then Sibert's troops fanned out along the north coast, and southward to join Hodge's XXIV Corps, which was moving north from Burauen after driving inland from their beachhead...
...white cots in the San Diego Naval Hospital last week listening with radio headsets to the news from the Pacific. They were casualties of Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Saipan and Palau, and they understood the cost of victory. They were armless, legless, diseased, blind. They knew that more would join them...