Word: supportive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seemed to have the presidency so surely within his grasp, only to have it elude him. With his own hand, he wrote out the telegram to Truman: "My heartiest congratulations ... I urge all Americans to unite behind you in support of every effort to keep our nation strong and free...
Output per farm worker in the U.S. has been multiplied 2½ times in the past 50 years. In 1787 it took 19 American farm people to support one other person, in addition to feeding themselves. Nowadays 19 farm people can support themselves, 56 other Americans and ten persons in other countries...
...cool, temperate region with enough rainfall to support dense forest, an entirely different type of soil develops: a podsol.† Tree roots do not bring enough lime to keep the soil from being acid, and their dead leaves form a layer of loose mold on the surface. Just below is a light-colored, often almost white layer of soil from which most of the soluble minerals have been leached by the heavy rainfall. Such a tree-formed soil is favorable for trees, but when man clears the forest and plants his grasslike wheat or corn, he gets poor crops...
...countries really overpopulated? It depends on what is meant. A handful of primitive savages, who live by hunting, can "overpopulate" an enormous area of fertile country. They eat up all the food available to them, though the land over which they roam could support, if turned to farming, many hundred thousand people...
...monkey with steel in a time of world crisis. In private hands, the industry is flourishing, producing more ,than ever before. Many right-wingers within the Labor party are extremely dubious about nationalization. Recently one Laborite M.P., Ivor Thomas, 42, M.P. for Keighley, resigned from the party rather than support the government's program. Speaking from the opposition benches last week, Mr. Thomas said: "The most obvious result of the government's activities in the past three years has been an immense concentration of power in the hands of the state and corresponding weakening of the power...