Word: roles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...announcement that Russia had produced an atomic explosion fathered continuing military demands that the AEC concentrate almost entirely on making bombs and improving them. Other questions which Lilienthal worked over while in office were international atomic controls (Russia and the U.S. promptly put forth apparently incompatible plans), and the role of private industry in the atomic program (there are strong and stubborn lobbies still working to get a large part of AEC production and development under their own control...
Sharing the platform with Robert L. Wolff, visiting history lecturer from Wisconsin, and Merle Fainsod, professor of Government, who moderated, Vilfan said that Yugoslavia "has nothing to hide." He went on to emphasize the role of his country as an example of a successful "democratic revolution" which combines "economic socialism and political democracy...
...problem that is popping up all over the country, for publicly owned electric power plants are rapidly increasing in number and coming into confict with existing systems. Some consider this "the welcome hand of a Fair Deal"; others call it "specter of socialism." But all agree that Government's role in electricity production is expanding so greatly that it is taking over a new role in the economy...
...cheapness is a farce and the people will not notice it until it is too late. The former favor unrestricted increase in public power operations. The latter propose a limitation on federal projects so that the areas o public and private companies are clearly defined. In any case, the role of expanding public power must be examined and its place in the economy determined...
Last week, T.U.C. leaders faced their government's key men in Sir Stafford Cripps's study in the House of Commons. Beside Cripps at his maroon-topped desk sat Ernest Bevin and Aneurin Bevan, both good union men. Ernie Bevin assumed the role in which he feels most at home: that of the table-thumping, tough-spoken bargainer. This time he was arguing for the employer's side, i.e., the government. When the T.U.C. leaders reiterated their demands, Bevin rumbled that it was up to the workers, through toil and discipline, to support their government...