Word: nationalizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...measure authorizes a fleet of 6000 planes for the Army Air Corps, the most potent aerial force in the nation's history, calls for new and stronger fortifications around Panama Canal, bolsters seacoast and inland defenses, increases the size of the Army, and equips it with vast supplies of vital equipment such as automatic rifiles, anti-aircraft guns and artillery...
Only two strings are tied to National Youth Administration aid. Those who benefit must be in such great need that without it they could not attend college; and they must be in good standing scholastically. Beyond this there is nothing. Methods of administration; the nature and amount of work required in return; the choosing of recipients--all these are solely in the hands of the University. Even to Harvard--traditionally terrified by anything smacking of government interference--such terms must appear generous and straightforward. Ninety-eight per cent of all the nation's schools eligible to receive aid, including Yale...
...most afraid of is that Germany may be like a man on a bicycle if he stops moving he'll have to jump off." Also, he said, the Nazis would face an intolerable situation if they have to "jump off" because of the difficulty in converting their nation from a wartime to a peacetime economy...
Amos 'n' Andy are not what they were seven years ago, when the nation used to drop whatever it was doing to listen to them and echo such of their darktown phrases a.s "ow-wah!" and "I'se regusted." But they still command the top five-a-week 15-minute radio audience estimated at 40,000,000 weekly. For eleven years the faithful have heard Amos 'n' Andy over NBC stations, but beginning April 3 Amos 'n' Andy will move...
Compulsory health insurance, says this propaganda, encourages malingering, actually costs more than private medical care, is "detrimental to the nation's health." Under the English health insurance system, says one booklet, "the . . . patient will not hesitate to come along into the waiting-room collarless and even coatless, nor does it add to the comfort of other patients when one is compelled to put up a large notice [asking] . . . patients . . . not to spit on the floor...