Word: rigidities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vastly increased purchases of war bonds with forced savings to follow if bond buying lags. "In almost every individual case they should be big enough to mean rigid self-denial. . . . We cannot fight this war . . . on a spend-as-usual basis...
Some day the U.S. Navy might start building huge rigid Zeppelin types again, heavily armed, capable of transporting as many as 1,000 parachutists, tons of bombs, and bearing within them bombing and scouting airplanes available instantly for offensive or defensive duty. The Germans have at least two large rigid airships-the Graf Zeppelin and the LZ-130, and some experts believe they constitute Hitler's boasted "secret weapon'' for the invasion of England...
...unrealistic to expect ceilings to be enforced by anyone's patriotism, be he manufacturer, wholesaler, retailer or consumer. And at that point, whenever it comes, the final necessities of price control will have to be dealt with. Chief among these necessities: 1) complete licensing and rationing; 2) rigid Government mopping up of a large part of consumer income via taxes and compulsory (if necessary) bond sales. For the long run, Leon Henderson has the price-control headache, but Henry Morgenthau has the aspirin...
...Despite these obvious handicaps, German education is not doomed," Kruse maintained. "The foundation for future improvement lies in the outstanding work accomplished by Reich scientists and engineers, even under rigid Nazi control. The work of these men can be used to revive the tradition of education which made German schools the model for the world before 1933, he stated...
...Nazis know what they want, and they are willing to do anything and everything to get it. We cannot, in the nature of things, set up definite and monolithic objectives. The democratic process is not instantaneous nor apt to produce rigid doctrines. But once we admit that the war must produce a new society, and that the conduct of the war must determine the nature of the peace, we shall be on the way to a gradual working out of the problems that brought about the war and created the enemies we face...