Word: nationalization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cost of the added manpower, he estimated, plus the cost of arming them, plus the cost of filling out some big gaps in the U.S. arsenal, would add $3 billion to the nation's 1948-49 defense budget, now set informally at $11 billion...
...military establishment which he proposed. A little more than a quarter of a million troops would have to be used in occupation and garrison duties. Alaskan forces should be increased from 7,000 to 15,000 combat and air-service troops. The balance (510,000) would be the nation's ready force, whose various missions would be to repulse an invasion, deny nearby bases to the enemy, secure faraway bases for the Air Force...
Before the Philadelphia convention next June, a major job of the nation's voters will be to absorb, weigh and compare the records in the Republican Who's Who of presidential candidates. Herewith, in the first of a series, TIME publishes the condensed biography and political record of New York's Governor Thomas Edmund Dewey...
...announcement from Albany was carefully phrased to conceal the Dewey-men's concern. Said Dewey: "The time has come for a frank and blunt statement of the complex and serious problems confronting our nation and the world. . . . The national Administration has failed in its duty of frank discussion. I propose to bring before the American people the facts as I see them and the solutions I believe necessary...
...board summoned the operators and John Lewis. The operators obediently appeared. But not John. Until he did, the Taft-Hartley machinery was stalled. Cunning John, who hates the Taft-Hartley Act, knew that the longer he delayed, the more the nation's coal stockpile would dwindle, the more effective his bargaining position would be. Meanwhile the nation could whistle for its coal, the miners could whistle for their wages...