Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Methodist shift was paralleled in other churches-and the declaration of war found the clergy even stronger in their support than they were in 1917. This united sentiment was attested by the official heads of each major Protestant denomination in replying unofficially to a questionnaire from TIME. Significantly, however, not one of them directly answered TIME'S question as to whether most ministers feel America is fighting for the cause of righteousness-i.e., whether they were likely to preach a holy war. Apparently the clergy have not forgotten how they got their fingers burned after World...
Although the H.S.U. also changed to intervention after Russia entered the war, this policy shift took place over the summer and did not restore the magazine to whatever place it had occupied as a leader of student opinion...
...only 7% of the U.S.'s productive capacity was busy with defense work. This year it is estimated at 25%. Next year it will be 49%. In 1943, it will be 54%. What this tremendous shift will do to the U.S., in swift shortening of butter supplies in favor of guns, in great blotches of unemployment, no man had the imagination fully to realize...
...shipyards are scheduled to launch 20 ships in December, 75 in the first quarter of 1942, 324 in the rest of the year. For want of labor some shipyards are still on a five-day, one-or-two shift basis. If the labor can be found, they probably will not long remain so. But when the ships are built crews will still be needed to man them-and the U.S. is short of sailors...
Primitive free enterprise, said he, was irresponsible and daring. The modern variety is (or is becoming) responsible, "marked by a shift from management in the aristocratic tradition of personal proprietorship to the democratic philosophy of non-partisan administration." But the danger is that it should lose its daring. In the fear that Government will out-promise and submerge a timorous enterprise system, "thus far business has relied too fully on the negative principle, 'I want to be left alone...