Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...They didn't have the foresight to include a large navy in their war scheme...
...Bretton Woods monetary conference, 44 nations undertook to devise a scheme to prevent some kinds of individual tinkering with the world economy. They proposed a monetary fund to regulate the exchange value of currencies and a reconstruction bank to secure international loans for nations which needed capital to get back on their feet. The merits of the plans were debatable. But the significant fact was that attention was being given the biggest problem: making the whole world's economy work. And U.S. businessmen, if critical, were still open to argument...
...Beveridge Report states the first of these propositions in statistics, graphs and budgets. With the second it agrees bluntly: "Abolition of want requires a . . . redistribution of income." The third, of course, is its whole justification: "The framing of a satisfactory scheme of social security depends on . . . social organization...
...Belgium was only a first step. During Prime Minister Winston Churchill's visit to General de Gaulle, Communist influence had muffled talk of a Western Bloc (TIME, Nov. 20). But Foreign Minister Spaak would not stay muffled. He said: "I want to emphasize that the Dumbarton Oaks scheme made particular reference to what are called regional arrangements. Belgium can envisage the conclusion of a regional accord with France, The Netherlands, Luxembourg and possibly Norway...
Tesla concentrated on larger projects. The most grandiose: a scheme for the wireless transmission of electric power. He proposed to charge the earth with tremendous voltages and make it "oscillate," thereby making it possible to tap electricity from any part of the globe. At his famed electrical tower in Colorado, Tesla produced a potential of 135,000,000 volts (still the highest ever achieved) and claimed that he lit 200 incandescent bulbs 26 miles away with wireless power...