Word: basic
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...more basic matters of truth and confidence, a wave of popular discomfort penetrated deep from the editorial columns. That "the Army has been caught in a barefaced misstaternent of fact" (as the Cleveland Plain Dealer put it), was bound to have repercussions far beyond the personal fate of the Problem General...
...Plan. Basic aim of the White-Morgenthau plan is to find a way to use the world's wealth to put the world back on its feet† The plan proposes that the governments of the world pool part of their financial resources, search out needed investments, and underwrite those that private capital will not-or cannot be expected to-handle. Its framework: > The United Nations Bank would have a total capital of $10 billion (expressed in "Unitas" equal to $10 in gold), in nontaxable, nontransferable $100,000 shares, to be divided among the United Nations by "an agreed...
...Cons. No one could quarrel with the Treasury's basic aim. But plenty of critics had knives stropped for the specific Treasury formula. The Wall Street Journal, seeing bureaucracy under the bed, spoke darkly of "socialization of foreign investment and . . . nationalization of property ownership." And a good many who ground their dusty way through the 17-page Treasury memorandum wondered how the World Bank could do so much more than private capital while insisting upon meticulously conservative safeguards for its money. The provisions for suspending defaulting members made it sound as if in due course the wealthy na tions...
...show entertaining. Jimmy Dorsey's band establishes one hit (the smoothly meandering Star Eyes) and one bidder (the galumphing So Long, Sarah Jane). Hazel Scott blends swing and quasi-classical music to the disadvantage of both and the delight of millions. Comely Lena Home proficiently marshals Count Basic's band and numerous choristers through a particularly unpleasant stretch of sub-operatic Africorn about the walls of Jericho. Eleanor Powell, who is the best female tap dancer on tap, proves it in a rope dance, a modified hula and a rampant straight number on a milk-white stage battleship...
...diverse as the populations that Hitler has enslaved. Fear of Russian intentions, fear of chaos, fear of the liquidation of the middle classes, fear of the possible postwar recrudescence of German might - these are merely a few of the fears that provoke Europeans to yeasty thinking. But the basic European quarrel is between those who look to the Atlantic Ocean for their freedom and those who regard every one of the 31 States that clutter up Europe from the Bay of Biscay to the Pripet Marshes as being an integral part of a cultural and spiritual entity. Underneath every other...