Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...advantage of the continuing conferences is that the participants-an impressive variety of men and services-will be able to give this tactic a fair try. If it fails, they can devise another, as a single commander might not be big enough or quick enough...
Inflation. ". . . . Over a period of ten or 15 years there ought to be a fair, steady continuity of values. . . . We have successfully stabilized prices during the war. We intend to continue this policy...
Employment. "[We must] make sure that we have projects for the future employment of people and a forward movement of our industries, carefully foreseen, and secondly that private enterprise and state enterprise are both able to play their parts to the utmost. . . . We must strive to secure our fair share of an augmented foreign trade...
Next Christmas, U.S. children will have to get along with 30-to-40% fewer toys than Santa Claus brought them last year. This was the sad conclusion of some 3,000 retail buyers who crowded together to stock up for Santa at the annual American Toy Fair in Manhattan last week...
There were two main reasons for the playroom gloom: 1) U.S. toymakers are busy making some 500 different war items; 2) war work or not, with no metal and rubber, less wood and paper, they cannot keep up peacetime production. But the Toy Fair showed that U.S. playthings will certainly not be as dreary as the toys British moppets had to take last Christmas, when a toy tank, crudely modeled of wood, with beer-bottle caps, stuck on for gun turrets, sold for a pound...