Word: nationalization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This will be necessary, Schlesinger said, because to achieve the real goal of Western Union in Europe, each participating nation would have to sacrifice its own defenses to the common cause, and they dare not do this without assurance of U.S. support...
...Church calls contraception "murder," hence "against God's law." It is, according to this thesis, the duty of the Church to prevent all men, whether Catholics or not, from committing such a crime. This is indeed a difficult argument to answer on its own grounds. In this nation, however, the question of murder is a legal rather than a sectarian matter. It is not, therefore, relevant to argue it on a religious level. And when the Church attempts to force such doctrines on the state, it challenges the fundamental precept of a free society...
Harvard ranks 19th in the nation this week, according to the ballots of 153 sports editors in the Associated Press weekly poll. The Crimson's upset win over Columbia won it fourth ranking in the East, behind Army, Penn, and Penn State...
...started out with a smelter (one employee, a chemist), but when platinum was found in Oregon in 1913 he began using it for contact points for automobile magnetos. World War I found him turning out parts for Jenny trainer-planes, but by 1923 he was one of the nation's first five radio manufacturers. A competitor brought out a vastly improved set and overnight, says Gilfillan cheerfully, "I found I was obsolete...
...President also said that the 1948 law is "certainly not in the interests of the nation when it makes the one sure road to civilian life early matrimony...