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Word: answer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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...fight because we crave a more peaceful and more orderly world, what are the conditions on which a peace will be negotiated and what terms of peace will insure this more orderly world?" Last week no U. S. citizen could give a final answer. The Pennsylvania State Federation of Women's Clubs offered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: General Advance | 6/17/1940 | See Source »

...council looked good. But the U. S. had listened to Herbert Hoover when he insisted that boards, councils, conferences would not do the job-one man had to have the power. From the White House came the answer. Big Bill Knudsen, bowing to the President with Old-World courtesy, straightened up to ask bluntly: "Who's boss?" "I am," said Franklin Roosevelt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Prelude to History | 6/10/1940 | See Source »

There was part of the answer. The big man was prepared to take over all the portfolios, handle the entire vast effort himself. Could any one man do it? Can Franklin Roosevelt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Prelude to History | 6/10/1940 | See Source »

...minutes fled, like the hawk-shadows of bombers across June-green farmlands in the Rhone Valley. In the White House the President sat confidently, easily, an air of certainty on his big, tanned, handsome face. The nation, having asked its anxious question, waited for the answer it demanded, the answer only its leader could give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Prelude to History | 6/10/1940 | See Source »

...future sense in it last week as the U. S. started working toward a warplane production of 50,000 annually. For when the drain of war production is over, many a factory will desperately need a new market for ships. Air-express planes may be an answer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIERS: Freight by Air? | 6/10/1940 | See Source »

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