Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mindful that the U.S. was maintaining a full-scale war of its own in the Pacific, Americans nevertheless could not help feeling that Russia was carrying most of the land-fighting load in Europe. Last week they learned how much the U.S. production machine had contributed to the Eastern Front. On some fronts more than half of the Russian Army's supplies move forward in U.S. trucks. From October 1941 to December 1944 the U.S. had shipped to Russia, via Lend-Lease...
...Nevertheless, Britain was pleased: the tool purchase cleared the decks for British reconversion. As long as the U.S. owned the tools, Britain could not shift them to making civilian goods, and Britons have worried lately that the U.S. would thus get the jump on them in postwar trade. With this obstacle out of the way, Britain promptly listed $12,000,000 worth of tools as surplus, so that makers of civilian goods could buy them...
Inevitable Growth. Even the independents are ready to admit that this control, which extends to vast chains of theaters all over the U.S., was an inevitable outcome of the growth of. the movies. Nevertheless, this close harmony has caused the old & new independents to cry "monopoly." The U.S. Department of Justice has heard them, and filed an application aimed at forcing the big distributors to sell their theaters within three years, Goldwyn's The Princess and the Pirate, made last summer, has shown in many a U.S. tank town, and in India and China. But, because of the tight...
Professor Clark firmly believes that wartime controls on the economy must be eliminated so that free enterprise can make needed postwar jobs. Nevertheless, says he, businessmen should not look upon controls as such evils that they must be done away with in short order. Rather they should see them as tools which, skill fully used, will unstopper the economy so that the forces for full employment, i.e., war-created markets and huge savings, are freed in a steady stream, not one dam-breaking burst...
...Johnny-come-lately to show business, Broadway's limber-faced Danny Kaye was nevertheless an X quantity as a disembodied voice. An album of records by him had been a sellout, but even his most ardent fans thought of him as a wild-eyed, sharp-nosed, mile-a-minute mugger who tore himself apart with frantic pantomime. Last week he proved he could be funny in the dark...