Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...worry was deepseated. There was concern over America's own economy. There was a definite foreboding that the "minimum" arms program was a by-guess-and-by-God estimate wrapped in a dark warning and covered by a blank check. There was an uncomfortable suspicion that the U.S. was being suckered into a premature manning of battle stations, that U.S. weapons and money might be dissipated in driblets from Greenland to Greece. There was a nagging fear that ECA might help keep Europe convalescent but never put it back on its feet. There was also a petulant feeling that...
...personality: it cuts far deeper, into national hopes & fears. Fundamentally, the British distrust the French and do not believe that France and Western Europe could be successfully defended against attack. They foresee only another Dunkirk and want to keep their military commitments on the Continent to a minimum. The British attitude toward the defense of the Continent is parallel to the distrust of "European entanglements" by those U.S. leaders who oppose the Atlantic pact and M.A.P...
...guaranteed Gold Cup purse would probably be the last of the big bonanza races this season. With betting off everywhere, the trend was toward lower purses. Last week, Saratoga announced a cut in its minimum purses from $3,000 to $2,500. At Santa Anita, which last winter managed three $100,000 races in a single meeting, horsemen were complaining about giving away so much money in one chunk, instead of spreading it around. Cheap horses, they argued, eat as much hay and oats as stakes winners...
What was needed now, the President said, was to pump new life into the sagging economy with a series of Fair Deal measures to increase minimum wages, broaden social security, raise farm price supports through the Brannan plan. In essence, his program was a moderate dose of the old New Deal mixture: deficit financing, some brave whistling, some Government pump-priming...
...news. Britain's dollars were going down the drain too fast; $261,950,000 had been used up from the end of March to the end of June. Only $1,636,180,000 was left-well below the $2 billion reserve the British had considered the minimum for safety...