Word: untold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dream of Riches. What, if anything, had been wrong with last spring's calculations? Although Americans had poured out untold wealth to fight the war, had they not emerged from it with their hands (and their customers' and employers' hands) full of engraved promises to pay? What more was needed to assure prosperity? Nothing, except for Americans to produce enough goods to pay off their promises to themselves. They were producing at a greater rate than ever before in peacetime-yet failing to meet their own demand...
...side of the Germans and "the main mass of the population . . . did not give opposition," their "autonomous" republics were expunged by Moscow. Charged with treason, sabotage and collaboration, an estimated 400,000 men, women & children were driven from the land on which their ancestors had lived for untold generations, and ordered to trek eastward. Where? Nobody knew-probably to the vast Kazak steppes beyond the Caspian...
...Student Council Committee for Food Relief will be presented to the student body to accept or reject. First reaction of dining hall gourmets will undoubtedly be to utter loud moans at the thought of gastronomic deprivation. Yet, actual balloting should reveal unqualified approval of a plan to help relieve untold suffering in Europe at the cost of very slight sacrifice here...
...blood and tears, the sweat, toil and untold misery caused by this disastrous war have not taught the British Empire that its worst enemy is its own shortsightedness, then the Empire is not worth saving at any rate, at least not with the blood of American youth. After all, when the Japanese enemy came, none of the natives risked their lives for the Empire, nor for the Dutch, who are, as Colonial Empires go, similarly behind the times. How different was the story in the Philippines...
...facts as presented, showed deficiencies in food supplies that threaten death by starvation to untold millions in other lands. The facts show this country to be the principal hope for salvation. The facts also show an increase in food consumption in this country of substantial proportions above the prewar years...