Word: segments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While Israeli leaders are firmly oriented towards the West, there is a growing Communist minority in Palestine that may someday threaten the government. Controlling only about 20 per cent of the vote at present, this Communist segment balloons each time Israel is rebuffed by the United States and Great Britain. And in the economic sphere there is increasing agitation for an oil agreement with the Russian bloc. When Britain pinched off the flow of oil to Haifa's refineries in the hope of stalling Israel's military machine, Romania soon came forward with an attractive deal, proposing to supply...
Undoubtedly the smallness of the vote for Wallace gives powerful impetus to this policy. Before November second, there is some evidence that leaders in the Soviet Union and her satellites considered a large segment of the American people to be opposed to the Russian policy of this government. There is no reason for that illusion now. In my opinion, the magnitude of the Wallace defeat hastens the day when it may be possible to undertake serious negotiations with the Soviet Union since Soviet leaders must be by now convinced that the prospects for appeasement are definitely blighted...
Still a third segment had chauffeurs drive down from New York to convey them and their guests around Princeton, where cars, are forbidden to under-graduates...
...author agreed to work with us in updating a second edition, which TLI distributed to some 5,000 U.S. business and industrial leaders. Another 3,000 copies went to Congressman Walter C. Ploeser, chairman of the House Small Business Committee, for distribution to key members of this important segment of the U.S. economy...
Mydans, who claims no crystal ball, was actually in Fukui to dig up material for a forthcoming TIME story on Japanese recovery. He wanted to observe a segment of Japanese life that was not directly under the influence of Tokyo, an area which had been hurt by war but had recovered quickly, in which farming, fishing, and business were all represented, and where the American military government commander knew and liked the people and had won their confidence. "We selected Fukui as a good sampling ground," cabled Mydans, as a postscript to his disaster report, "and had found...