Word: wars
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Admiral Sherman was an unusual man -brilliant, modest and, at 53, one of the youngest officers ever proposed as Chief of Naval Operations. His World War II record was impressive. He commanded the aircraft carrier Wasp until she was shot out from beneath him in the Solomons in 1942. During the final years of the war he was Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz' "brain"; he helped plan the great sweep across the Pacific from Tarawa to Okinawa...
Edward Reilly Stettinius Sr. made his fortune as a purchasing agent for the House of Morgan during World War I. Ed Stettinius Jr., born in 1900 on Chicago's Gold Coast, grew up to make a reputation, if not a fortune, as an effective seller of other men's ideas...
While many a U.S. citizen worried, when he had the time, about strikes, the cold war, his burden of taxes and his children's prospects for the future, a noted U.S. economist sat down to consider what the future really seemed to hold in store for the country...
Solid Sumner Slichter went into no dreams of his own of an atom-built, atom-powered U.S. wonderland; he assumed only a continuance of the American talent for invention, and the American genius for production. He left the possibility of war out of consideration, as something that could not be charted. Then, projecting forward from known past performance, he predicted...
...years, when the big crop of war babies has grown and proliferated, the U.S. population will have risen to 175 million, expanding the labor force to at least 72,500,000 men & women...