Word: nationalization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hard Questions. What the Administration owed the people was an explanation of why it had pressed so hard four months ago for a policy which was now unworkable; why it had waited so long to take a step it now insisted was necessary to the nation's security...
Next day, in Los Angeles, Marshall stated a truth of which many Americans had become more or less keenly aware. Said Marshall: "No nation in modern history has ever occupied a position of responsibility comparable to that of this country today nor has any country had such vast responsibility thrust upon it in so short a time." How well would the U.S. carry out its responsibility...
...coal strike (see above), Taft-Hartley machinery was already at work on two other strike fronts: at the Oak Ridge atom plant, where a labor dispute threatened the heart of U.S. war strength; in the meat-packing industry, where a walkout of packinghouse workers had halved the nation's meat supply...
...weeks before the Japs struck Pearl Harbor, the nation's defense industries were just recovering from near-paralysis; its key coal mines had been strike-shut. Last week, at another uncertain moment in history, some U.S. citizens rubbed their eyes. Were they dreaming, or were the country's mines shut again...
...tell the Italians that they can choose almost any party they like, but not Communism. The U.S. should make it clear now that it will use force, if necessary, to prevent Italy from going Communist. What a howl would go up! But Italy, a great country, is a nation we have just defeated. We had to fight Italy because she was politically so decadent or so immature or so irresponsible as to accept a Fascist regime which, beside being antidemocratic, constituted a menace to other nations. There is no reason to allow her to choose another regime at least...