Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have no empire of the mind as yet, Nor have we shed our light within the grave; But, as the sons of enterprise and sweat, Honor the quick, the strong, the free, the brave - The mind whose thoughts are cradled in the hand - The fierce emancipators of the slave Exacting destiny of virgin land. We are the builders of dynamic things, Successors to the spires of Samarkand - Boilers and bars, propellers, wheels and wings To run and fly and dive at our behest, Through which the mighty wind of freedom sings. America is not a land of rest...
Never a strong reed, Hungary wilted quickly in the hot breath of war. For the government of Admiral Nicholas Horthy the Russian Army, Allied air attacks and the perceptible shrinking of German power were too much. This week Horthy, once the willing slave of Adolf Hitler, took to the Budapest radio, asked for an armistice less than a month after Russians crossed the border. A few hours later the Germans reportedly locked him up. Berlin also installed a new quisling, began barricading Budapest. Hungary was apparently to become another Italy...
...Germans were delighted. They began to posture as a friend of Poland. Polish slave laborers in Germany were permitted to remove the big P (for Pole) from their coats. Few Poles, familiar with the horrors of German friendship, would be deceived by the tactic. Nor could it greatly affect the military situation in Poland. But responsibility for the fact that at this late day in the war the Germans could still make use of such a tactic lay squarely with Moscow-and, to a lesser extent, with the U.S. and Britain...
...Steel. Japan's war lords know that their upstart industry and slave labor cannot hope to match Allied production. But the war lords are pinning their forlorn hopes on other factors to save them, for years to come: 1) Russian neutrality; 2) geography, which lengthens Allied sup ply lines as it shortens Japan's; 3) stock piles of vital raw materials, high enough to last up to two years; 4) Allied war weariness, and revulsion against casualties heavier than in Europe...
...convention with a 1,600-word resolution: 1,000 words denouncing the New Deal, 200 praising Governor Thomas E. Dewey. The New Deal, said the resolution, was the first administration "to abolish collective bargaining ... to bind men to their jobs like indentured servants." It passed the "Smith-Connally-Harness Slave...