Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nations. Saddled with a problem too great for it to handle, that organization might be destroyed while still in its infancy. He cited recent Soviet use of the veto in the Albanian case as proof of U.N. weakness. Predicting that the death of Premier Stalin might result in the rise to power of a "Hitler-like" Russian, Professor Dow opined that unlike pre-war Germany, the Soviet Union is unable to wage an effective aggressive...
...History offers each of its great challenges only once. After only one failure, or one refusal, the offer is withdrawn. Babylon, Athens, Thebes, Alexandria, Madrid, Vienna sink back, and do not rise again. ... It may be that the darkness of great tragedy will bring to a quick end the short, bright history of the United States -for there is enough truth in the dream of the New World to make the action tragic. The United States is called before the rehearsals are completed. Its strength and promise have not been matured by the wisdom of time and suffering...
Aside from "Lady in the Lake's" intrinsic worth, Robert Montgomery deserves a pat on the back for breaking away from Hollywood formula method. It is a pity he chose the most conventional of movie plots, and so could not make the novelty and the frequent nice touches rise above the sluggishness of the whole. The camera eye technique clearly has possibilities in movies that are naturally suited to subjectivity, but in the old missing-woman and private cop hash, it is at best incongruous...
...slump prediction was the declining volume of consumer purchasing power. In July 1945, real wages & salaries were a whopping 205% of the 1935-39 average, because prices had been held down while pay rose. By last December, real wages had dropped to 168% of the prewar average, because the rise in prices was outstripping wage increases. And the value of real wages was still shrinking. Wages & salaries, the backbone of consumer demand, had been 70% of all income payments in July 1945. By last December they had fallen...
...United States in the Greek crisis would constitute a subversion of the United Nations. Chapter VIII, Section 1, of the Dumbarton Oaks plan for U.N. organization states: "The Security Council should be empowered to investigate any dispute or any situation which may lead to international friction or give rise to a dispute in order to determine whether its continuance is likely to endanger the maintenance of international peace and security." Section 6 of the Moscow Declaration is equally explicit: "That after the termination of hostilities they (the Soviet Union, Great Britain, China, and the United States) will not employ their...