Word: concerned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...begin with, America is not helping Britain for purely sentimental reasons. Our primary concern is our own self-preservation...
Probed further on price philosophy, FORTUNE'S Forum tossed a cautious but impressive bouquet to Trustbuster Thurman Arnold. His statement that "The first concern of every democracy is the maintenance of a free market" brought 58.7% agreement (27.7% in toto, 31% in part), with utility and railmen again lagging behind. Asked to make a choice between General Johnson's defunct NRA pro-price-fixing policy, and the Arnold anti-price-fixing program, the Forum gave Arnold the edge: NRA, 22%; Arnold, 33%; "depends," 45%. More striking were its views on particular prices. A clear majority (from...
Draft Administrator Clarence Addison Dykstra in Washington meantime moved slowly, patiently to fit conscription into U. S. life. He cautioned big employers not to get panicky (on the average, said he, less than 5% of any one concern's eligible employes would be called). From national to State headquarters, then to local draft boards throughout the U. S., went computations of the first quotas to be called by November's end. Nearly everywhere, enough registrants had volunteered to supply the first 30,000 trainees. No man was accepted just because he had volunteered; rascals who hoped to flee...
While slighter temblors shook the nation, Rumania's chief concern last week was with the effects of last fortnight's violent earthquake shocks. In Bucharest 98 bodies had been taken from the stony ruins of the elegant Carlton apartments. The national toll rose to 357 dead, thousands injured...
...worst early fall for drama in Broadway's memory continued last week with the opening of two bad plays, Beverly Hills and Quiet Please. They were both about Hollywood. They might as well have been about Brooklyn or Burma. Their chief concern was not with the film colony's peculiarities, but with the world enterprise, adultery. It proved not very amusing...