Word: theres
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unlike the ordinary citizen, the Government could not adjust its budget by moving to a cheaper neighborhood or finding a better job. But there were some alternatives :
There was a third way-to keep on overspending, keep on going into debt, even in good times, as if debt didn't matter. Nobody seriously tried to justify this as a lasting policy. But it was just what the U.S. was currently doing.
For almost the first time on a vacation he did virtually no paper work-only one White House pouch left the base during the week and it contained routine documents. There were nightly motion pictures at the cottage, but the President, no movie fan, seldom stayed up to watch.
Was there nothing else to be done in China but to wait, as the State Department urged, "until the dust settles?"
Under the Dust. But there were difficulties. The legal right of the U.S. to move troops into Formosa was open to serious challenge. By the treaty of 1895, which followed the Sino-Japanese War, Formosa went to Japan.