Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...customers. Example: iron & steel will probably be removed from the list of Lend-Lease shipments after Jan. 1, 1945, and put on the list of items British metal fabricators may purchase direct from U.S. mills. Thus, between V-E day and V-A day, British exporters will get a fair start in the competitive race with U.S. exporters for world markets...
Britain's House of Commons. To a perturbed and sometimes heckling House, Foreign Secretary Eden explained that Britain's policy in liberated Europe has a threefold purpose: 1) to achieve victory; 2) to keep order behind the lines of the Allied armies; 3) to provide fair and untrammeled elections of governments and parliaments, free acceptance or rejection of royal houses...
...Harvard's intercollegiate football season ran as usual, Coach Harlow receiving a Navy commission at its end. It was still Fair Harvard, but the transition to war was making swift advances and most undergraduates were living on borrowed time...
Parliament and the country were stunned: Mr. King had suddenly abandoned his lifelong opposition to conscription. Only three days before, McNaughton had insisted that the voluntary system of obtaining needed troops should be "given a fair trial." Only one day before, the Prime Minister himself had reiterated: "I do not believe that [conscription] is necessary." Terrific public pressure had forced him to change his mind...
...realize with considerable poignancy just how cherishable the spacious and innocent securities of early 20th-century life in a good provincial city could be. Director Vincente Minelli and his colleagues are so profitably absorbed in such everyday matters that they make only a curtain-bow to the St. Louis Fair...