Word: nationally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nation was treated last week to the unique sight of an Administration official really swinging an economy ax. Secretary Louis Johnson announced a cutback in Defense Department jobs which he thought would ultimately save the country $500 million a year...
Britain's Labor statesmen faced a challenge, too. It was perhaps the most serious challenge since they began, four years ago, to transform Britain into a Socialist state. The question was: Could a nation which stood on the verge of bankruptcy afford Socialism...
...launch the retrenchment policy next week at the convention of the powerful British Trades Union Congress at Bridlington. Last week he ordered all government bureaus to prepare estimates for a 5% cut in expenditures; if this economy could be carried through it would lop $600 million from the nation's $12 billion budget. Board of Trade President Harold Wilson ordered a 5% slash in some retail textile and footwear prices; this might ease workers' pressure for wage increases...
...Christian World. "A start must be made," said Adenauer when he presided last year over West Germany's constitutional assembly, "so that Germany can earn a place among the free nations of the world." As Chancellor, at 73, he will guide a nation neither whole nor as yet quite free-still distrusted by the outside world, beset with grave economic problems, vestiges of hatred and despair...
Having started with the Post Office as a clerk ut 1935, Jesse Donaldson Jr., 38, began catching up with his father, the nation's first career-man Postmaster General since Benjamin Franklin. His latest appointment: assistant chief inspector of the U.S. Post Office...