Word: nationally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Something of this same shoring up and pulling down was going on in the nation's foreign policy last week. In Europe the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff talked things over with their Atlantic pact allies and announced that there would be some kind of military organization by 1950 (see INTERNATIONAL). They were shoring up a Europe that had sagged in places, but fundamentally was built of sound material. In China last week the U.S. pulled out the final sagging props that had held up its policy, and a lot of decayed timbers were exposed in the process...
...pounds and selling for $3. Gone beyond recall beneath the Red tide (the U.S. was told) was the whole great heartland of Asia: the millions who had suffered first and longest the Axis onslaught, who had survived to resume their old fight against the armies of Communism. Bidding this nation bitter farewell, the U.S. Government seemed perilously close to adding: good riddance...
...fumbling, vacillating attempts to help Nationalist China, the U.S. had actually spent $2 billion. It was a sum, said Acheson, "of proportionately greater magnitude in relation to the budget of that Government than the United States has provided to any nation of Western Europe since...
...deal gave Kaiser a permanent place in the U.S. aluminum industry with a totally integrated operation from mine to mill. It also assured Permanente of its ranking as the nation's third largest aluminum producer, with a primary capacity of 130,000 tons v. Reynolds Metals Co.'s 190,000 tons and the Aluminum Co. of America's 275,000 tons...
...Faolain's picture of modern Ireland, which he thinks is a good place to live, is far from the notions of the ould sod and the emerald isle which many Americans cherish. He sees a nation of peasants-become-freeholders, a nation slowly learning how to make the best of its position "at the end of the queue" of Europe. For the present, however, he strikes a balance: " [We] have no nightingales, but also have no serpents; no moles, also no ballet; no Communist intelligentsia, but also no Catholic intelligentsia...