Word: basic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Today, says Teague, "... We find ourselves at the end of a long term that has been very much like war: a century and a half of turmoil and confusion, suffering and bleak unloveliness, a turbulent period filled with the unhappiness that is inevitable when basic readjustments of human living are being effected...
...papermen were more immediately worried about pulp. Expanding their facilities, improving their technology, reaching into Southern pine forests for raw material, U. S. pulp manufacturers now have enough potential capacity to supply basic U. S. needs. But with Canada's mills already working at capacity to supply Empire needs, Britain may look to U. S. pulp mills to supply her Scandinavian and Finnish deficit. Speculators were quick to appreciate the fact. Jumping into the market the morning after Scandinavia's invasion, they bought shares in integrated paper companies, made market leaders out of such stocks as International, Union...
...subsequently develop into or result in the reconstruction of this economics system. We agree with Dr. Conant that a reconstruction of our educational system is imperative; but, on the other hand, we believe this can only be achieved as an aftermath of a much more necessary and much more basic economic reconstruction...
...other matters, he said, they might be in perfect agreement, but while that basic difference remained in their desire for peace, he did not want to speak on the same platform...
Although Circusman North was out to beat his uncles at their own game (the tent this year is blue and the prop men wear berets), he was not so inexperienced as to change the basic rules of that game...