Word: nationalization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...worse than nonsense; it results from ... a cynical incomprehension of what the people of the world will tolerate from any nation. . . . We could not possibly take that opportunity without deserting our inheritance. Americans as conquerors would be tragically miscast...
...course of U.S. foreign relations was somewhat erratic last week. It was hopelessly inept and confused on the problem of Palestine. But, by & large, the nation kept its eyes pretty well fixed on the main goal, which was peace, not war-but readiness...
Manhattan Banker James G. Blaine, grandson of 1884's Republican "Man from Maine," came out for "an orderly recession." He thought it would be good for the nation's economy. "There's little danger," said he, "unless the recession becomes a rout...
...enrollments were down, a higher percentage of the students than ever before wanted, and could afford, to go to college. Last week the U.S. Office of Education estimated that there would be 2,675,000 college students by 1950 (300,000 more than now). To house them all, the nation's colleges would have to expand their facilities by the equivalent of 133 Empire State Buildings or 76 Pentagons...
Hundreds at Cornell know "Lib" Bailey, the nation's most eminent horticulturist, as an erect, white-haired man whom they used to see dragging strange bushes and branches across the campus to his laboratory, where he puttered and purred over them. Sometimes he would grab a visitor by the arm and whisk him off to his garden. There, showing off the blooms and blossoms he had collected from lonely hillsides and jungles all over the world, he would say that his field was the true internationalism: "My pinks speak all languages alike...