Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Across the country, farmers were cautious but content. They had good equipment and money in the bank, the fat of six prosperous years. The total volume of crops was only 6% short of 1948-5 incredible production and 30% above the 1923-32 average. Rice and tree nuts set records. Cotton, wheat, oats, tobacco, apples, peaches and pears were above average. Nature had been kind; improved technology had increased yields by a whopping 50% an acre in the past 20 years. And men had worked hard for the bounty they would reap. As Mrs. Barbour pointed out: "People look...
...Soviet government," concluded the note, "considers it necessary to declare that it will not rest content with such a situation and will be forced to resort to other more effective measures...to call to order the unbridled fascist rapists...
Next day, Tito's government hurled back charges of "lies and slanders," "distortions of the truth," and "unworthy insinuations," branded Russia as an enemy and "double-crosser." East and West, the question was: If Joseph Stalin" is no longer willing to "rest content" with the existence of Tito's regime, just what does he intend...
Cripps had agreed to transferability, although the amount of drawing rights that could be transferred was cut from 40% to 25%. Since this would cost Britain only $50 million a year at most, Cripps had won a victory in terms of cash. ECA and the Belgians were content in having established the principle that ECA was working toward multilateral trade, not bilateral budgeting and bartering...
During the last year, Russia's ex post facto craving to lead the world in discoveries and inventions has reached the proportions of a national mania. Not content with claiming the airplane, telegraph, radio and electric light as Russian inventions, Soviet propagandists have been staking out their claims in every branch of the arts & sciences. Among the many Russian scientists who "were discussing" evolution long before Darwin, say the propagandists, was the 18th Century scholar, Mikhail Lomonosov. Scientist Lomonosov was quite a fellow; he also invented the helicopter and developed the theory of conservation of energy...