Word: nye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...profit-meriting people as any other manufacturers. For them, it was a forgotten but not a new sensation. In 1918 they were given special tax incentives; in the '20s they were shamed or starved out of the munitions business; in the '30s they were excoriated by the Nye Committee; last week their prestige had come almost full circle...
Senator Gerald P. Nye, crying that...
Manager of the plant will be the No. 1 U. S. powder maker of World War I: E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. But fat with its expanding peacetime chemical business, and still smarting from the raking it took in 1934 in the Nye munitions investigation, Du Pont has shied away from powder-making for World War II. Hence the Allies' announcement of their new plant last week carried a careful proviso: while Du Pont will oversee both construction and operation of Tennessee Powder Co., it will have no part in its profits, will take only a management...
...belief that we fought the last war for the House of Morgan with its corollary--British propaganda--is widespread. It caused the Nye munitions investigation which resulted in such heavy war-time taxes that no profits will be made in future wars. It is the backbone of the recent Student Union broadside. Historians, however, would dispute this reasoning. They would say that British propaganda had some influence, though it was small west of the Mississippi, and everywhere only activated those who were already pro-Ally. They would point to the American diplomatic blunders which forced us into war over...
...ballot itself cites the now-famous statement of Senator Gerald P. Nye in one of the pictorials, "First cash and carry, then credit and carry, then war loans--then...