Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rate of two billion dollars a month, may spend more than five billion a month during fiscal 1943. Big budget points: > The Government is determined to devote "at least one-half" of national production to the war effort. > The major Federal aid programs-farm aid, work relief, youth aid-can be reduced by about one-half, to about 1.4 billion dollars during fiscal 1943. But the President abolished none of them, merely short-rationed each program. > New taxes of seven billion dollars must be levied, plus another two billion dollars of social-security collections (this latter fund would not reduce...
Democracy v. Axis. "For the best part of 20 years the youth of Britain and America have been taught that war was evil, which is true, and that it would never come again, which has been proved false. . . . The youth of Germany, of Japan and Italy have been taught that aggressive war is the noblest duty of the citizen. . . . This naturally has placed us . . . at a disadvantage which only time, courage and untiring exertion can correct...
...mage (relief). But faithful to Vichy and Marshal Pétain, De Bournat had defied the pro-De Gaulle Societe des Anciens Combattants, amused or confused the islands' totally Aryan population by faithfully publishing Vichy's anti-Jewish decrees, tried to organize a Vichy "Patriotic Youth" movement while 150 of St. Pierre's sons were slipping away to join De Gaullists in Canada. Crowds on the pier cried "Vive De Gaulle" as De Bournat passed. "Vive Pétain" he said...
Equal Education. "The social injustice of creating a cultured elite without giving to the great majority of the nation's youth a rightful share in our cultural heritage should cease at once...
...Benton & Bowles), six years a building-materials man (Johns Manville), two years a soapman (Colgate-Palmolive-Peet), seven months a $1-a-year man (OPM's auto and paper divisions). Standard Brands has been aging rapidly since depression times (1940 profits were 35% below 1932) and Adams' youth may prove as useful as his varied experience...