Word: western
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Continental Western Europeans had-understandably-a dread of war talk and crisis which acted as a psychological magnifier on every sign from Washington that peace could be won without risk, sacrifice and a constant building up of the unity and strength of the free world...
...Rosenow set up his barren shop (his office lacks even a telephone) Jan. 1, the refugees have come at an average of 150 a day. Rosenow examines each person's credentials of fear: arrest certificates, summonses to work in uranium mines. A few lucky applicants are flown to Western Germany. Others must remain in Berlin, return to their homes, or continue their perilous journey afoot through the Russian zone to the West. Rosenow explained: "Panic alone is not enough. We have that everywhere. We can hope to help only those who must flee to live-and perhaps to fight...
...Mapai, the mildly socialist party of Premier Ben-Gurion and Foreign Minister Moshe Shertok, which roughly corresponds to Britain's Labor Party. It favors "democratic" socialism, limited Western orientation, peace with the Arabs. It is generally expected to win, though not by as large a margin as Ben-Gurion and Shertok are fighting for. It has optimistically nominated 118 candidates for the 120 posts to be filled. "The other two places," cracked Israelis last week, "are for the opposition...
...Department of Justice last week fired its antitrust guns at the biggest target of all. In a federal district court in Newark, N.J., it charged American Telephone & Telegraph Co., biggest U.S. industrial corporation (gauged by its $5 billion in assets) and its manufacturing subsidiary, Western Electric Co., Inc., with "conspiracy to monopolize" the U.S. telephone business. The Government's attack, in preparation for more than a year, was no surprise. But not even A.T. & T. expected such a blanket barrage...
...Government's 73-page complaint charged that A.T. & T. had eliminated competition by patent restrictions, purchase of competing companies, etc., and had set up Western Electric as the exclusive manufacturer and dealer for "substantially all" U.S. telephone equipment. "The absence of effective competition," said the complaint, "has tended to defeat effective public regulation of [telephone] rates . . . since the higher the prices charged by Western for telephone apparatus and equipment, the higher the plant investment on which [A.T. & T.'s] operating companies are entitled to earn a reasonable return...