Word: westernisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dave Beck not only dominates western labor; he dominates great chunks of business as well. He sees himself as a kind of self-appointed price-wage czar. With deadpan audacity he has used his power to prevent cutthroat competition, to punish price cutters, and to help firms with teamster contracts make a safe margin of profit...
...howled down out of the Northwest, spun off the flanks of the Colorado Rockies, and whirled free and angry across the Great Plains. To western Kansans, this was it-a sure-enough "blue norther,"* the season's first. Soon screaming winds, as high as 80 miles an hour, lashed the wheatfields with blinding snow and churned up great white drifts. Transcontinental trains ground to a halt; ice-sheathed communication lines sagged and snapped. Thousands of grubbing cattle, trapped in the snow, froze to death on the hoof...
...Tempting Opportunity. John Foster Dulles, acting head of the U.S. delegation to the U.N., made a cogent point last week: "The problem of Germany cannot be satisfactorily solved except within the framework of some Western European unity. [The Germans] could safely be given a great peaceful opportunity as a small minority-say 20%-of Western Europe. But as one of several separate independent nations in Europe, the Germans, strategically located in the middle of Europe, have a tempting opportunity to maneuver their way back to a dominant position...
Understandably, the U.S. wanted to raise German steel production in order to decrease European demands for U.S. steel. This policy, however, had to be fitted into the broad U.S. responsibility for Western leadership. France and the Benelux countries would lose confidence in U.S. leadership, indispensable to Western Union, if decisions of vital importance to them were taken without consulting them and without considering their deep-rooted fears of a German resurgence...
...barbarians across the water might have more money-but they would never be really civilized. European intellectuals have always claimed that those American nouveaux riches are uncouth. They have now made the damning discovery that Americans are also unhappy. America in their eyes is the playgirl of the Western world-and not even a pretty one-with plumbing instead of arteries, ice water instead of blood, neuroses instead of a heart and a radio instead of a brain...