Word: wars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mountainous burden of taxes, the U.S. was still an amazingly prosperous nation. The almost-forgotten recession of last spring had left only barely noticeable scars: personal savings were dropping a little and the old problem of unemployment, though lessening, seemed back for good. But even in comparison with the war years, the U.S. was doing fine...
Back home in South Dakota after the war, rugged, curly-haired Joe Foss, the Marine Corps' top South Pacific air ace, found politicking almost as simple as a wingover and just as much fun. Everyone remembered that he had been the first U.S. flyer to tie Eddie Rickenbacker's World War I record by shooting down 26 Japs over Guadalcanal. In 1948, Minnehaha County elected him overwhelmingly to the state house of representatives...
...Republican Party found such a principle after its triumphant emergence from the Civil War. It embraced "the new and most dynamic force''-business-and the principle that what was good for business was good for the nation...
...sudden zeal for public service and good works. He went to the University of Chicago as vice president, bought the Encyclopaedia Britannica in partnership with the university, also picked up a few other businesses (including Muzak, which pipes canned music into restaurants and cocktail lounges). Shortly after World War II, he became Assistant Secretary of State in charge of selling the U.S. to the world with the Voice of America. Chester Bowles, who left the ad business several years after Benton, went to Washington himself as chief...
Opposing Schlesinger in the discussion, entitled "The Center and the Left," Herbert Aptheker, associate editor of "Masses and Mainstream," charged that the "vital center" of which Schlesinger is a proponent, "only maintains what exists, namely monopoly capitalism." He called for a unity among all non-conservatives "so that a war against Fascism and capitalism can and must be successful...