Word: longs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Truman took a long, not so happy look at the budget last week, and reported that the deficit would be a huge $5.5 billion, instead of the mere $873 million he had predicted in January. It was the second biggest in U.S. peacetime history (the biggest: 1940-41's $6 billion...
...Phil Murray, long defender of the rights of the Reds, who rendered the final, Olympian judgment: "There is enough room in the C.I.O. movement to differ about many subjects . . . plenty of room, plenty of room. But there is no room for Communism...
...Fifty-four of the 55 men, women & children on the DC-4-among them famed Cartoonist Helen Hokinson (see PRESS), Congressman George J. Bates of Massachusetts-had died in the river or in a horrid welter of broken bodies, smashed baggage and torn metal on shore. One woman lived long enough to die in a hospital. It was the biggest death toll in U.S. airline history...
Industrialists soundly fear that more efficient competitors in other countries would put them out of business if trade barriers were lifted. Economists are afraid that the dislocations necessary to attain the long-range objective of integration would interfere with Western Europe's urgent short-range objective of earning more dollars. Politicians are afraid that economic hardships would give the Communists a chance to recapture lost ground. Said London's Economist last week: "[It] is not possible ... to telescope into one great act of policy a process which took over three generations to complete in the preindustrial United States...
...have come down a long trail . . . We may stumble, but we will get up ... Raising India to its feet means hard work. Not so flashily dramatic, but quiet hard work. We may be on a mountaintop sometimes, and again in a valley below. This visit here is like a visit to the mountaintop, and I shall remember it when I am in the valley below...