Word: neighborism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...proposal: that the U.S. put its influence behind such an organization of the world now, that all be shown the advantages of joining, that customs barriers be eliminated, a universal currency established, and the good-neighbor policy be set up throughout the world...
...Maritime Commission last week was United Fruit Co.'s 52 banana carriers (26 U.S. flag, the rest Panamanian or Honduran). If these are requisitioned, the U.S. may have to subsidize some Central American republics, throw the bananas in the water. But if some more of the good-neighbor fleet is taken over, the South Americans may be roused into putting into service their share of the 85 Axis vessels still immobilized in Western Hemisphere ports...
...human value of man himself. What that value was in 1941 no book of 1941 told. Novelist Koestler came closest to doing it. His Darkness at Noon is laid in a Communist prison. In one scene an imprisoned Communist taps through his cell wall to ask why his neighbor, a Tsarist officer, has first refused, then sent him cigarets. The nameless, faceless, voiceless Tsarist, the type of the repudiated man, taps back his reason to the totalitarian who once thought he was the hope of the world: "Decency-something your kind will never understand...
...world got a new democracy last week and Free France made character for itself in the Middle East. Two months after he freed Syria, Free French General Georges Catroux announced the end of France's Mandate over Lebanon, Syria's coastal neighbor, pronounced it an independent republic with its capital at Beirut...
...year-old spindle drill press into a vertical milling machine. To start production he hired five Ohio Pen ex-convicts. Three of them, a burglar and two forgers, have since left him for better jobs.* His other employes include students from Ohio State's engineering school, a neighbor, a penitentiary guard on vacation, and his wife. By last week they were on a three-shift, seven-day basis, and Price's home-built machinery has increased to five lathes, three drill presses, three milling machines, three grinders, a press, a power hacksaw. His original subcontract has been doubled...