Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This massive scheme of global warfare was well along on the U.S. Army planning schedule last week. For most soldiers in Europe it meant that V-E day would be only a weekend in war's long year. For U.S. production workers it meant many more months at war-work...
...basic issue is not compulsory military training, but adequate national defense; peacetime conscription is only one element in a rounded defense program under modern military conditions. ... Adequate defense under conditions of modern war involves... a satisfactory scheme for basic scientific development and the training of personnel for this development. It also calls for a carefully integrated plan for organization of our industry for military eventualities...
Slow-talking, 36-year-old Farmer Butters did not launch his odd scheme without encountering certain difficulties. First he had to find some buffalo. The Government finally agreed to sell him a herd then roaming the Sioux Indian reservation in South Dakota. Then bankers were skittish about lending him the purchase price. Butters mortgaged his two farms and bought the herd...
...reconciling peace, and a true 'general international organization' for its maintenance will become not only possible but inevitable. But let that peace degenerate into a vicious scramble for power blocs, for puppets and satellites, for empire, for trade advantages, for strategic frontiers, and the Dumbarton Oaks scheme will pass from its present state of suspended animation into final death...
...Such differentiation is often spoken of as undemocratic. As a matter of fact the original scheme (as first submitted to Congress) with its selective features was quite the reverse; this is evident if one compares a program for providing professional education for veterans at government expense on the basis of demonstrated ability with the past procedures in this country in which the accidents of geography and parental income played the dominating role...