Word: yet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doctrines of the Left, with their teaching that the ordinary man can make less effort to produce and yet consume more, have, in the hands of both [the Conservative and Labor] parties, contributed to [the crisis] . . . The Labor Government, as the bearers of responsibility, are very much to blame for their stubbornness in refusing to remit anything of their plans . . . It is not enough for a self-respecting Government merely to say that its opponents would have been no better ... In Britain courage pays political dividends. Those politicians who refuse to prolong the rosy illusions . . . and tell the people soberly...
...while it looked as though Finland's time had come once more. It was the only country on Russia's European border that had not yet been reduced to satellite status; since war's end, the doughty Finns had lived uneasily on Russian "tolerance." Last week, the Finnish Communists made a bid for power...
Mountains to Climb. Because Alberta has not yet solved the problem of where to sell the oil, it has more of an explorers' than a producers' boom. The province's 890 wells already have a capacity of 100,000 barrels a day, and are expected to up this figure to 300,000 by 1951; but they are actually producing only about 60,000 barrels daily, enough to meet the needs of the prairie provinces. As fast as wells are brought in, they are being choked back...
...overall gain in U.S. church membership last year was 2,190,164, or 2.8% -more than equaling the estimated 1.7% population gain. This represents a total of 79,576,352 members, or 53.3% of the total population, the largest proportion of U.S. citizens ever yet recorded as church members. In the good old days of the old-time religion, the unchurched were far more numerous: in 1880 only 19.9% of the population were official church members; by 1900 the figure was 34.7%, and by 1920 it had risen only...
...have a well-dressed cowboy in the home, parents can plunk out as much as $83.40 for a single outfit. For another $42.50, they can buy a gabardine shirt, trousers and felt hat for a cowgirl. Even at those prices, retailers have found little buyers' resistance as yet...