Word: widespreading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...foreign publication is normal enough. But it is an interesting fact that on the afternoon of the sale our Berlin office and the offices of our distributors were busy with visitors and telephoners asking whether they could subscribe to TIME. That seems to be proof enough of a widespread desire on the part of German civilians for American publications and for the American viewpoint on world affairs...
...TIME'S source substituted assumption for fact, figured (wrongly) that Yugoslavs would heed a widespread...
Public opinion would have to decide its willingness to sponsor and support such a project. If we were to set a precedent in this matter, possibly other towns and colleges would join in the plan until it becomes widespread. I feel that the students of Harvard would give their approval, not only to a "Memorial Town For France," but also to a concrete demonstration of goodwill and a lasting investment in the world bank of peace. Henry S. Williams...
Thus did the Administration bring out as solid policy a compensatory fiscal program (i.e., high taxes in good years with widespread debt retirement, lower taxes in baa years with added debt if necessary). To citizens haunted by the U.S.'s massive debt and tlie inflationary influences of an unbalanced budget, it looked good. But to politicians, a compensatory fiscal program has no campaign sex appeal. By election time Congressmen may decide that a tax cut is a better campaign approach...
With justified pride, President Truman last week announced that the U.S. had kept its promise and that the world famine emergency had been met. What had been done was not enough to prevent widespread suffering, disease, and uncounted deaths in Europe, China, India. But the threat of mass starvation had been dispelled...