Word: nationalization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...drive could be organized on a nationwide scale, housewives were not at all sure that they had the answer. But they were sure that somebody should do something. Last spring a Gallup poll showed the public strongly opposed to the return of controls. Last week Gallup reported that the nation now favored, by an amazing 56% to 35%, restoration of both price controls and rationing of many retail products...
...present Esperanto version differs slightly from the 1878 language; the English translation: Hatred of nation for nation Fall, fall, it is already time! The whole of humanity in one family Must unite themselves...
...streets of Buenos Aires last week the talk was of football and horse races and cattle fairs. National pride had been hurt when a Uruguayan bull won the Hereford competition at the annual 50-ciedad Rural. But all the nation was boasting of the fireman named Delfo Cabrera who had won the marathon at the Olympics (in token of the nation's gratitude, Evita Peron gave him a furnished house...
...Mimeographed budget report on their desks, Peronistas put through an 8.6 billion-peso ($1.8 billion) budget. In four hours they passed 28 bills, including one that would give the President a dictator's power: it authorized him to mobilize men and resources by decree whenever he thought the nation's welfare demanded it. Peronista deputies did not bother even to have the bill read aloud...
...Look Ahead. Though the Radical Party issued a warning to the nation that Peronistas were seeking to concentrate "all political, economic and cultural powers" under one "official party and its chief," the warning reached few Argentines. The government controlled press and radio saw to that...