Word: supplementation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Federation or Force. Eventually Count Coudenhove-Kalergi would like to see a federated world. Lacking that, he hopes the U.S. will preserve the peace by keeping a preponderant air force in being to supplement the work of the British Navy. As for Europe, he does not despair of federalizing it after the war is over. He would have the European federal units accept a common Bill of Rights, and elect members of a European House of Representatives on a population basis. The European Senate would consist of the prime ministers and foreign ministers of the various countries. Together...
Youth In Crisis (March of Time) and Children of Mars (RKO-Radio) are two unusually vivid, powerful, short films about wartime juvenile delinquency.* Both films cover the same ground, but they are so different in approach and emphasis that they supplement each other...
Inflation Later. The week also produced a notable fog-clearing statement about postwar inflation. Harvard's distinguished pro-business economist, Sumner Slichter, in a special supplement to the autumn Harvard Business Review, explored the probabilities of a dangerous inflation after the war. He concluded: 1) the danger of the now-famed, and admittedly enormous, '"inflationary gap" has been grossly exaggerated; 2) the danger of an all-out postwar inflation is lessened by the fact that price control today has been "fair" rather than "perfect"; 3) the admittedly huge liquid funds in consumers' and corporations' pockets will...
...these causes can be added one more: Japanese capture of Burma's "rice bowl," from which came 1,500,000 tons of rice annually to supplement India's average yearly production of 27,000,000 tons...
Said the London Times last fortnight in its Literary Supplement: "A book so real, austere, singular, rugged and wild as the world it depicts, as though hewn from the basalt rock, such monumental sculpture as Travels in Arabia Deserta cannot be forever ignored. Yet it needed a world war to awaken the English people to their possession of a treasure which may stand an age and beyond like Stonehenge. . . . He could make no compromise with the English he called 'Victorian and Costermongery.' Forty years ago he wrote to Doctor Hogarth: 'My main intention was not so much...