Word: segments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time, the dictator may compel the rich to disgorge enough in taxes to keep a stream of job-creating money flowing into public works. But the continued use of tax money to subsidize one segment of society, such as the unemployed or the workers, inflames those who have to pay the steadily mounting bill. At some point along the line the dictator must find an excuse to make the tax-and-subsidize economy palatable to everybody. This is done by discovering an outside enemy, which justifies the final splurge in military public works...
Bevin's big, powerful Transport and General Workers Union once again condemned Morrison's release of Sir Oswald. Other unions were equally restive. British unions are an important segment of the Labor Party; withdrawal of their support of Morrison would divide the Party, might wreck it if Morrison continued as a Party leader...
Local gendarmerie and fire-fighting forces joined in the exercises, cheered on by the livelier segment of the Adams House population. Tiffin a la Tondelayo was served and all guests departed at 11, assuring their hosts that they had had a simply delightful time...
...Labor Board, rock-solid defender of Little Steel, finally conceded that his prize formula was outmoded. In a monthly report to the Senate he said: "As the months flow by and the board continues to hold wages ... we become increasingly conscious of the fact that we are asking one segment of our society to do its part to protect all Americans from the ravages of inflation . . . [although] a similar obligation has not been placed as heavily upon . . . some of the other segments of this society...
...good or evil, to believe or not to believe, the charge in effect was that modern Jewry, or at least a powerful segment of it, was conspiring to arm an illegal army variously estimated to number from 30,000 to 80,000 or more trained fighting...