Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reminded his audience of Franklin Roosevelt's series of promises not to run for another term, and said: "Is it any wonder that when the White House speaks, the first question the people ask is not whether the news is good or bad, but is it true...
...great scientific achievements of World War II is: 1) The jet-propulsion engine. 2) The robot submarine. 3) A better explosive than TNT. 4) An insecticide that promises to conquer mosquitoes, bedbugs, roaches, flies. 5) A wonder drug twice as effective as penicillin...
...Tiny Squeak." Senator La Follette's chief complaint against U.S. foreign policy: "Our failure to step forward with an American democratic alternative" to British imperialism and Russian power politics. Said he: "The people wonder if they are to be committed now to enforce a peace settlement which violates American principles of freedom and democracy." And what, the Senator asked, is to be done about the chaos in Italy, the policy toward Franco, the fate of the Poles? "The American people wonder about our policy in the Far East. Do we favor a strong China or do we side with...
...Pepper" Martin-taking the hard way back to his old post in Chungking -faced the mortar fire at Peleliu with the first landing wave, found himself pinned on the sands between two quizzical Marines ("I wonder where we are." "It sure ain't Staten Island...
Postwar Farms (MARCH OF TIME] will interest not only farmers but also those numerous urbanites who wonder wistfully how they might make out on five acres and a prayer. General answer: there is a chance for small farmers, through rural electrification and cooperatives, but not too gay or sure a one. Few or none of the returning soldiers who look forward to farming can be absorbed on the land; and the small farmer at best is threatened by the expanding immensity of 20th-century big-business farming. Most impressive-and to many, most depressing-shots in the film show...