Word: war
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That is cancer: war between the body and its rebel cells. But it is not a two, sided civil war, because the body has almost no defenses. The body creates no antibodies against cancer as it does against diphtheria or typhoid. It builds no tissue walls to confine the destructive cells. It feeds them well, allows them to grow unchecked, and dies helplessly when they disrupt some vital function...
...canal from Florida to Corpus Christi had already proved a lifesaver in World War II. While tankers were being sunk by submarines within sight of the coast, the canal barges were safe from attack. That boomed shipping on the canal from 7,000,000 tons (prewar) to a peak of 17,500,000 tons in 1944. There has been little tapering-off since...
...Half-interest in the Pampanga Sugar Mills in the Philippines, which paid out $1,000,000 a year in dividends before the war, and will soon be completely restored from wartime damage by the Japanese...
...Since war's end, many an impatient squawk has been sounded against the U.S. Military Government for failing to do "something" about Germany's cartels -though hardly anybody knew what the something should be. Last winter, a civilian committee headed by Federal Trade Commissioner Garland Ferguson trotted off to see if the squawking was justified. The group reported that...
...control prices, markets, etc.-was not going along satisfactorily. Furthermore, deconcentration-the actual sale of assets held or controlled by the cartels-had got nowhere, partly because of Allied political differences. The committee recommended deconcentration of the plants of the I.G. Farben empire, a mainstay of the Nazi war machine. General Lucius Clay, then Military Governor of Germany, retorted that any further break-up of German enterprises "would be a political and not a security measure." His staff, which got much of the blame from the committee, was even sharper. Sneered his economic adviser Lawrence Wilkinson: the Ferguson report...