Word: partnerships
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...interventionists' bargain, as he saw it, was a bad one. To line up with Britain would be "just like a well-organized, money-making business deciding to take a bankrupt firm in as partner." In that "impractical" partnership, the U.S. would squander its treasury and its sons' blood. The strain would be too much for democracy, some form of totalitarianism would have to be set up. The net: turmoil, chaos, revolution...
...young bean shoots of isolationism, the weeds had got out of hand, and threatened to choke the garden-Jew-haters, Roosevelt-haters, England-haters, Coughlinites, politicians, demagogues. The General's followers had run away with their leader. The General's firm, meaty, businesslike points (an impractical partnership . . . a squandering of wealth . . . Hitler will die some day) were still as respectably moot as ever. But the General's beans were being rapidly overshadowed by the rank weeds...
...editorial in the Sunday Express warned somberly that "the current of American thought has set lately against partnership in our war." Other papers told their readers that U.S. aircraft production was slow, that polls showed that only 20% of the U.S. favored a declaration of war. Some went on to caution their readers against believing that Russia would...
...airline in the world connects Free China with the outside world, lightheartedly o'er-leaping beaconless jungles and merciless Japanese. The Chinese call it the Middle Kingdom Space Machine Family; to foreigners it is known as China National Aviation Corp., operated by far-flung Pan American Airways in partnership with the Chinese Government. CNAC, a collection of seasoned pilots and even more seasoned planes, takes in its stride adventures which would not be believed if seen in the movies. Last week CNAC told a tale which topped its bravura career...
...keen mind and force of character command respect, Regina lures her unloved and invalided husband (Herbert Marshall) home to persuade him to invest his funds in her ratty brothers' scheme: to take advantage of the South's cheap and defenseless labor by establishing a cotton factory in partnership with a Northern capitalist. When he balks, she torments him to death, then emerges triumphant over the rest of the greedy pack...