Word: need
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Seligman expressed it, the purpose of the organization will be to "preserve traditional civil liberties and to establish a consciousness of the problems of economic security." Members of the faculty as well as students, he said, have expressed a need for an ideological meeting ground between American and foreign groups who are interested in the formation of a third social force as an alternative to the extremes of the Left and Right...
...dingy room in a dreary Athens suburb of Nea Philadelphia last week, sat an aged woman, her chin bent low over her hollow chest, her hair in untidy wisps around her wrinkled face, her sharp black eyes lost in memory. She had no need to be dressed for company, for hardly anybody drops in to pay a call on Mamma Erato these days. They are too afraid. Her only friends are the rheumatic old cobbler just down the street and the kind, ugly butcher next door. Sometimes Mamma Erato slinks out of her room to make...
...postwar Germany, where no planes are being built (because the occupation powers forbid it), Willy Messerschmitt, after a denazification court fined him $200 and let him go, might have become a pathetic relic of the war. He was made of sterner stuff. Wherever he looked, the crying need was for more houses. Whole sections of Diisseldorf, Cologne and Nurnberg lay in rubble, and every day more refugees from the East poured in to swamp West Germany's already jam-packed buildings. Frankfurt alone this year hopes to put up 100,000 dwelling units. Quietly Willy Messerschmitt went to work...
What sort of citizens would such men be? The FORTUNE tellers could only guess. They would probably be good technicians, good managers, good neighbors. But would they ever do anything creative or provocative-"furnish any quota of free-swinging s.o.b.s we seem to need for leavening the economy?" Said FORTUNE: "The answers will be a long time in coming...
...transportation," said Rickenbacker, "is suffering from too much coddling and wet-nursing. More regulation and paternalism are not the cure. The individual carriers need less artificial support, less shielding from the facts of life, and more exposure to the inexorable economic laws that apply to business in general." Rick, who pinches Eastern's pennies until Lincoln's beard hurts, thought the industry needed to "learn the homely virtues of thrift, economy and efficiency, and that one must work if he expects...