Word: protectionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"Which two [freedoms] do you think it is most important to have? 1) The right to say or write what one believes without fear of punishment? 2) The right to work at any job one chooses? 3) Protection from unreasonable interference by police? 4) The right to vote in a...
On a map of the Egyptian littoral, General Omar Bradley, Army chief of staff, lectured Congressmen on the problem of maintaining a hypothetical 20-group air force within "effective" striking distance of Russia. A minimum of seven divisions would be needed to protect the base from overland attack by massed...
The U.S. pressed for lowering of tariffs, abolition of quantitative restrictions (i.e., fixing of how much of certain goods a nation could buy or sell), the breakup of tight little barter and preference blocs. .But the "backward" nations of Asia, Africa and Latin America insisted that, unless their fledgling industries...
Italian reaction was electric. In Trieste, 30,000 cheering Italians paraded for three miles, ended up on the waterfront to salute the U.S. cruiser Dayton (see cut). In the Red stronghold of Milan, ten truckloads of Communists demonstrated in the cathedral square; Milanese swarmed out against them with boos and...
". . . Economic and social life is inconceivable without liberty. ... It cannot be a liberty which merely denies state regulation. Neither can it be the pseudo-liberty of our present day wherein man is asked to submit his individuality to the will and fancy of gigantic organizations. Genuine and healthy liberty can...