Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...test this shift, TIME last week asked ranking churchmen of each major Protestant denomination what change they had observed in the sentiment of their clergy since Sept. 1939. Without exception they reported a trend away from pacifism. Individual pronouncements-which had no official status-the answers are nonetheless significant and indicative...
...facts and conditions of U. S. aid were less important than its shift from worried apathy into tentative action. For weeks Herbert Hoover, urging aid specifically for the small nations of Poland, Finland, Norway, Holland, Belgium, has been preaching that U. S. ingenuity can somehow find a way to feed Hitler's victims in conquered countries without aiding Adolf Hitler...
This is a Brooklyn classroom. It is nearly midnight. Since early morning these machines have been humming, training men for U. S. industrial defense. This shift, the lobster trick, started at 10:30 p.m. At 2 the men will stop for coffee; at 5 a.m. they will yield their machines to the next shift...
...Church of England (and U. S. Episcopal) Catechism: "My duty ... is ... To order myself lowly and reverently to all my betters . . . And to do my duty in that state of life unto which it shall please God to call me." But World War II has merely speeded the shift from the oldtime hunting-parson philosophy. Forerunners of the change were the Bishop of Ely's effort in 1939 to turn his palace into an old folk's home ("we keep too many gardeners to grow too many vegetables to feed too many servants to make too many beds...
...were for capital goods. For the first time in more than a decade, industry's prime mover-capital-goods expansion-agitated the indexes again. The steel rate soared from 60% of capacity (April) to 92% in September. At 11:30 p.m., on Dec. 9, steelworkers finishing the second shift also finished an era. They cast the years 60,835,000th ton of ingots, and thereby put 1940 ahead of the previous peak steel year of 1929. The FRB production index, its base broadened by FRB statisticians in August, touched its all-time high two months later, kept on going...