Word: solids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time like this. It wanted advice; it wanted reassurance. This week, from a man well qualified to give them, the U.S. got both. The reassuring adviser, who bears the imposing title of Director of War Mobilization and Reconversion, was greying, 55-year-old Frederick Moore Vinson. In a solid and detailed 71-page report to the President and Congress, dealing primarily in economic facts, he said: "While we plan and produce for the destruction of Japan ... we must work toward transition, the kind of well-timed transition that will prevent depression from coming to us as the guest of peace...
...this week's long and factual report Fred Vinson did some thinking beyond V-J day, about the future of the U.S. in general. A believer in an expanding economy, he called for as much hard work, as much stern industry and as much solid unity in peace as the nation has known in war. If that is achieved, he said, "the American people are in the pleasant predicament of having to learn to live 50% better than they have ever lived before...
...Europe shivered through last winter, so it faced the prospect of freezing in the next. Many a European hopes that the U.S. will ship the coal that Europe needs. Last week, Solid Fuels Boss Harold Ickes dashed this hope. The U.S., said he, will fall short by some 37,000,000 tons of meeting its own needs. Result: coal shipments to Europe, now 500,000 tons a month, will be stopped altogether in September. If Europe is to get coal, it must...
...bounds. True, there were no Britons, Germans, Russians, Italians or Latin Americans, no glittering titles, no lavish profligates. Gambling's heroic days were gone: the days when the Princess Suvarov (descendant of Russia's famed general) assaulted the bank at Monte Carlo for a solid month and left it with a daily deficit; the days when German Crown Prince Wilhelm won 2,000,000 francs on the eve of World War I, in which his father and he were about to gamble away an empire; the days when gay Edward VII brought along the prim Prince of Wales...
...solid Flesh Admiral William F. Halsey...