Word: westly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These varied enterprises marked the latest Navy moves in its increasingly difficult publicity fight for a "reasonable appropriation." Last year, a highbrass conference in Key West decided that the three armed services would divvy up the defense budget almost equally, but ever since then, naval officers have had an increasing suspicion that their service was being cased out of its hallowed position as the nation's "first line of defense...
There has been considerable evidence to back them up. At Key West the Navy had clinched an authorization for a flush-decked 63,000 ton carrier, in a swap for giving up strategic bombing to the Air Force. But Secretary of Defense Louis. Johnson ordered the ship off the ways soon after he took office...
Generally optimistic views over the British action and its effects on west and East came from seven of the University's economic experts--men familiar with the problem through work with the Economic Cooperation Administration the University's Russian Research Center, and through general studies in the field of international trade. Of these men, only one was not convinced that devaluation had at least al fair chance of solving Britain's economic woes...
...sense the soviet countries cannot affect devaluation because the volume of East-West trade is now low for obvious political reasons. "If England wanted to sell to Russia, devaluation would prove a big help; but as long as trade is so small it does not matter...
...Professor Leontief warned against the train of thought that devaluation will greatly add to the economic strength of the West and that consequently there should be little to fear. "Russia may be rubbing her hands right now in hopes the British worker will have to cut his tandard of living by such degrees that Communism will easily be able to take over Britain...