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Finally, the pent-up British said what they had long been thinking. Americans have been generous with typical big brotherly advice on the Middle East. miserly when it comes to assuming responsibility there. Responsibility means U.S. soldiers, guns, planes and ships. Was the U.S. ready...
...pent-up economic pressures of peace had generated political pressures and had brought President Truman up against his first serious difference with Congress (see below). By last week it was clear that the threat of increasing strikes had plunked the issue of a national wage policy down on Harry Truman's desk for urgent decision...
After 35 years of complete Japanese domination, Koreans were falling over themselves with pent-up political activity. One small boat met the U.S. convoy 20 miles offshore. In it was a Korean who nominated himself for Finance Minister...
...question seemed not to be so much whether industry would collapse if war orders were suddenly canceled, but whether industry could hustle fast enough to meet the pent-up peacetime demand for its wares...
...halo hat trailing a waist-length floating black lace scarf. Then there was an evening gown-33 yards of chiffon shading from deep apricot to pale oyster. At these and 46 other fripperies, in the ballroom of the West End's swank Mayfair Hotel, women buyers gasped with pent-up pleasure. It was London's first "non-austerity" style show in six years...