Word: readjusted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chiefs of Staff's Omar Bradley. "We have anticipated it for four years and it calls for no change in our basic defense plans." That was true. But there was an enormous difference between "tomorrow" and "now" and the armed forces were the first who would have to readjust their timing. Minutes after the news flash whipped through the Pentagon's interlaced corridors, officers were hastily pulling papers from confidential files, and translating future strategy into plans for the present...
Republicans were quite happy. The break showed that prices could readjust themselves, and without the controls which G.O.P. leaders have consistently opposed. Even Bernard Baruch, who recently recommended far-reaching controls (TIME, Jan. 26), begged off from testifying before the Senate Banking and Currency Committee until he had time for another look around. He wired Committee Chairman Charles Tobey: "There is evidence, superficial perhaps, but existing, that commodities show a tendency to soften. Were that to come about, the need for control would be less pressing...
...peoples of the world equelly. Such an international policy which will maintain and further the great social gains of the last fourteen years. We believe that the veteran can only become a well-integrated member of his community if he is given a fair opportunity to readjust himself. His interests must be considered from a balanced view of the welfare of the community...
While he demobilized and repatriated an army of 5,000,000 he set up the machinery to receive, feed and readjust thousands of civilians returning from Japan's crumbled empire in China, the Central Pacific, Malaya and the East Indies...
...each payment that much larger has other ill effects. Veterans entering college for the first time this summer found themselves ushered quickly to a choice spot behind the financial eight-ball. Men who must add to the government allotment in order to meet living costs have been forced to readjust strained budgets in order to simplify University bookkeeping. The stream of men petitioning for extensions, the loans, the red tape, the confusion, the added mental burden in face of the price mess, would all be avoided if the term bills could be aligned with the Public Law payments...