Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shinwell is chairman of the Labor Party, however, and Attlee did not leave him out in the cold entirely. He was made Secretary of State for War, which is not a Cabinet job and where high-level strategy and policy decisions will be made over his head. The red-tabbed generals are sure to dislike Manny, but last week this crack was going the rounds: "When he was at the Ministry of Fuel & Power, we had no fuel or power; now that he's at the War Office perhaps we'll have...
...increase in the price of milk, which rises from 9.75 to 15 francs a liter, and of butter, which is increased by 60%. Thus the authorities seem to have lent an ear to the claims we advanced on behalf of French farmers. . . . Let us hope that the new price level will become generalized for all farm products...
Last Fall's ostentatious Constitutional Revision only culminated evolution in progress since the first Council of 1908. Two basic obstacles had long blocked a quick maturity: unrepresentative political composition of the Council and the time-honored concept of the level on which propriety permitted a collegiate aristocracy to function...
First A-Bomb Plants. The tense problem of the atomic bomb is naturally bothering the Soviet high command. Russia has the knowledge-but she has not yet brought manufacture of the bomb to an industrial level. Already, however, the Soviet Union has begun to build the first three plants for the production of A-bombs. They are in eastern Siberia and will be ready to begin turning out bombs in some 12 to 18 months...
...current annual rate is only 1,370 planes. Major General (ret.) Oliver P. Echols, president of the Aircraft Industries Association, told the commission that it would be "impossible to provide the 6,000 to 10,000 planes necessary to bring the air forces up to operational [i.e., minimum fighting] level within any period of time strategic considerations might allow." What the industry wanted was a program of at least five years of military production at a big enough rate (probably 3,000 to 6,000 annually) to keep it alive and vigorous...