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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Steel: the U.S. will not be able to produce enough to answer clamorous demands at home and abroad. Expansion of plant capacity will not help immediately; building new furnaces would just use up more scarce steel. Steel will be in short supply at least through...
...country's large cities. Mayors would act under the orders of the military commanders. Did that act presage an authoritarian regime? Most observers thought not. Brazil faced a dangerous situation created by its Communists in the first months of its new constitutional freedom, and felt it necessary to use stern measures to meet the threat. But Rio's sober Correio da Manha warned: ". . . Now more than ever, democrats must be vigilant in the face of the intentions and motives of the reactionaries, fascists, integralistas and remnants of [Vargas'] New State...
Revolution and a new national consciousness made Mexicans defensive about their language. They did not put their street signs in Aztec (the Irish went back to Gaelic), but they became sensitive about encroachments on their Spanish. In 1924, rugged old President Plutarco Elías Calles forbade use of any other language on storefronts, on signs or in advertising. All over Mexico municipalities put his decrees into local law. So Blue Bars became Cantinas Azules, Fashion Shops became Salones de Modas. After a postmaster refused to deliver mail to Chapultepec Heights, Mexico City's fashionable suburb came...
...Dublin, they have tongues in their heads, and use them. Last week Art Critic Arthur Power, after looking at Jack Yeats's latest show, spoke up: "His figures look at their worst as though eaten by some hideous disease, or at their best as if they had had an unfortunate encounter with a bacon cutter. . . . His success is tempting young painters to copy his careless methods and so robbing them of all integrity...
...bunch of hypocrites. [But] Senator Taft was on a political speaking tour. . . . Meals . . . had been prepared far in advance . . . and it was not for him to dictate to his hosts what [to serve]. . . . It's an ancient trick to smear a man by the use of such backhanded tricks. . . . It's a point which readers who are going to follow the fortunes of their candidates in all newspapers might do well to bear in mind...