Word: unbuilt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hydroelectric plants, irrigation, new ports, housing, highways, airports and all the benefits of modern industrialization to Argentina. The cost: $1,650,000,000. But for several months now Perón's papers have been silent. Last week the reason for the silence became as obvious as the unbuilt dams. Argentina is short of money for the plan...
...Conscription of all wealth that is needed for national defense is a duty that no nation can neglect if it is to survive. But let Reader Dean ponder two facts: i) The Government cannot conscript unbuilt factories. Just now, it is trying to get volunteers to build them, hence some difficulties. 2) Con scripting wealth is a long-established principle of government. Its common name is taxation. One rearmament tax bill has been passed and another is pending...
...Unless we regain in this democracy the conviction that there are final things for which democracy will fight, unless we recover faith in the expression of these things in words, we can leave our planes unbuilt and our battleships on paper, for we shall not need them...