Word: masses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Socialist Britain had been fully warned that Wallace would be speaking for himself alone. Wrote Denis W. Brogan, an acute observer of U.S. affairs: "Britain will be welcoming not the leader of a great mass movement, much less the leader of a great national party, but a distinguished plant geneticist, a former vice president, and the editor of ... a weekly review...
...Empire. Henry Ford did it. He was the genius of mass production. He created social problems which the U.S. is still trying to solve. For himself he built an industrial empire of coal mines, rubber plantations, iron mines, timberland, sawmills, hydroelectric works, companies in a dozen other nations. The empire's capital was the plant on the River Rouge where the stubborn, cantankerous, opinionated Henry Ford ruled the roost. At one time it was estimated that he was worth $2 billion. The bankers tried to horn in on the empire, but he repulsed them. He had a low opinion...
From his new, vast Willow Run plant, after several false starts, the bombers rolled out. Thousands of other U.S. plants poured out the tools of war, mass-produced by the techniques of the old pacifist, Ford...
...have learned by bitter experience the small regard a Congressman has for mass petitions," said Labor Rights co-chairman Herbert S. Levine '50, "and are changing our tactics accordingly...
...named Marian McGregor, shocked at the general loneliness she encountered, started the Spartan Wives last spring. She and some friends of hers invited other campus wives to get together for picnics and "homemaking" sessions. By fall the idea had spread so far that the wives had to hold a mass meeting in a college ballroom to elect officers. The college detailed a woman professor and the director of adult education extension to help...