Word: nationalization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...free nation's decision is slow in the making, and no one knows certainly on what day of what month a people makes up its mind. Its decision is the slow growth of conviction in many minds, the slow swelling of resolve in many hearts. It is reached not at the green-topped tables of state, but at the corner store and the village market, at the tea table and the union meeting. It is taken by corporations examining their books, by housewives scribbling a market list, by farmers squinting at a crop of wheat. Until the voice...
Firm Resolve. In the year 1948-a fitful year in a nervous century-historians could record that a mass of U.S. intentions, promises and pledges had hardened into resolve and action. In 1948, the world's greatest nation of free men finally resolved to meet Communism's deadly challenge with every weapon of peace that it possessed; and if the struggle against Communism required war, the U.S. would fight...
...election was a personal victory almost without historical parallel; a victory of the fighting spirit. Whatever their politics, the nation's common people found in his election a great emotional satisfaction. He had humbled the confident, discomfited the savants and the pollsters, and given a new luster to the old-fashioned virtues of work and dogged courage. The year 1948 was Harry Truman's year...
Proof to Come. Harry Truman had still to prove himself to the nation's voters. He had run on a program, not a record. Some 680,000 who went to the polls had not cast a ballot for any presidential candidate. Truman had polled less than a majority, and his winning margin was the smallest since 1916. Many a voter had voted for him simply as a protest...
...three years of military diplomacy as Ike Eisenhower's brilliant wartime chief of staff, Lieut. General Walter Bedell Smith switched smoothly to the civilian brand in 1946 as U.S. ambassador to Moscow. There, for almost three years, he has nursed his ulcers and plugged determinedly away at the nation's toughest, loneliest diplomatic post. But in the stiffening deadlock of U.S.-Soviet relations there has been little that any diplomat could do other than make futile trips to the Kremlin...