Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...best-known work, The Clans man, an idealization of the original Ku Klux Klan as the South's knights in shining armor, became the first million-dollar movie (The Birth of a Nation, 1915). Lawyer, politician, Baptist minister, son of a Klan founder, he capitalized on race prejudice, harped loud & long on white ("Aryan") supremacy, sold over 5,000,000 copies of his 20 novels...
Slightly annoyed by slowdowns but unhampered until last month by such outright strikes as paralyzed U.S. auto reconversion, British manufacturers seemed at first to have got off to a fast start in the race for postwar world markets. Early this year they even managed to ship a driblet of cars into the U.S. itself. But, with reconversion nearly complete, the British were now waking up to the fact that their auto production system was not up to the American model...
...proposed commission is not created and set to work immediately, Wild foresees an international armament race that will not only lead to eventual destruction; if, by some chance, the nation should survive, there would only be drastic change in the internal liberties of the American citizen...
...gestapo situation is definitely possible. If we live in such a tense world community as an atom race will produce, the national security must be placed paramount to all other considerations. Control of atomic information would have to be handed to the military, and then cloaked in secrecy. The more afraid we become, the tighter will become the secrecy. And the tighter the secrecy, the tighter the totalitarianism," he pointed...
...future world neurosis surrounding an armament race, any nation would be just as easily tempted to use it on us. Once this happened there could be no war as we know it today. There could be no retaliation. "The nation that attacks first will win. We could not survive," Wild insisted...