Word: mindedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Winston Churchill returned home last week to face a labor crisis. Directly challenging the Trade Disputes Act of 1927 (enacted soon after the 1926 general strike), the Union of Post Office Workers last fortnight applied, and was promptly accepted, for affiliation with the British Trades Union Congress. The Trade Disputes...
Coningham had abundantly proved in the Battle of Africa that, to be most successful, air support must be turned loose for the deep penetration as well as the shallow attack ahead of troops. Thus he was air's most persuasive spokesman when he and other flyers brought their plan...
Confession. "I came out of college thinking that Theodore Roosevelt, whom I admired profoundly, was in this respect eccentric, that he kept harping on the Panama Canal and the navy. For in my youth we all assumed . . . that war was an affair that 'militarists' talked about and not...
Editing the New York World when it was one of the most influential of U.S. newspapers, Lippmann knew that a combination of British-American sea power was (and is) essential. "Nevertheless I was too weak-minded to take a stand against the exorbitant folly of the Washington Disarmament Conference." He...
¶In addition to the 2,500,000 men and women already building planes, by year's end there will be more than 3,000,000 trained pilots, navigators, airport workers, etc.-an air-minded nucleus bound to give postwar aviation a tremendous forward thrust.