Word: nationalization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have finally printed an article that no other magazine and few newspapers have wanted or dared to print. For the first time, the small nation that has fought seven surrounding nations, England, and many other countries throughout the world, has been given a write-up in your magazine that is justified. The Aug. 16 edition of TIME should be preserved for posterity. Congratulations on a fine article...
...what did the great abundance mean to the nation? What did it mean to high prices? If the law of supply & demand were allowed to work, prices would already be dropping, some farmers would be facing financial losses. No one wanted the farmers to lose money. So the law of supply & demand had been amended by the law which said that the Government would guarantee the farmer certain prices...
...Hiss. We were close friends, but we are caught in a tragedy of history. Mr. Hiss represents the concealed enemy against which we are all fighting, and I am fighting. I have testified against him with remorse and pity, but in a moment of history in which this nation now stands, so help me God, I could not do otherwise...
...which thinks of itself as-and is-a two-party nation, found itself last week with eleven different presidential tickets. Besides the Republicans' Dewey and Warren, the Democrats' Truman and Barkley, the Progressives' Wallace and Taylor, the Dixiecrats' Thurmond and Wright, there were seven other entries. Their backers were few, fanatical, as noisy as their budgets would allow...
...nation's taxicab business has slumped as much as 25% below the normal summer slack. Parmelee Transportation Co., biggest U.S. company, with 4,167 cabs in New York, Chicago, Pittsburgh and Minneapolis, figures that this year's net may go as low as $500,000 (its boom-peak net: $2,000,000 in 1946). For many a smaller company, trying to meet more than doubled postwar costs on prewar fares, the slump means...