Word: generously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...avoid dictatorship, jobs ought to be made for at least 55,000,000 workers. . . . The least hopeful aspect of our future is that amateurs are likely to be tinkering with our economic machinery. . . . It should be kept in mind that generous, even fabulous, rewards for those at the top are as a magnet that all along has been exerting an upward pull. . . . After all, what you find in a pay envelope is profit and most of the people I have known in my life have been constantly trying to get a fatter pay envelope...
...this angry gesture the Germans found time. They also found time to sow mines with a generous hand. Cautious Red sappers, one Soviet Union officer reported, gingerly disconnected booby traps from chimney pots, sacks of potatoes, haystacks, fresh loaves of bread-even from crying infants. But the mines did not delay the Red Army long, and the Germans had to abandon many of their supply dumps. Food and ammunition by the trainload fell into Russian hands. On a single airfield in the south the Reds captured 19 undamaged planes. Near Bryansk, they seized land mines stacked in Teutonically neat mounds...
Renegotiation in Practice. Two prime examples of underprivileged industries under present renegotiation standards are 1) machine tools, 2) aircraft. Both industries have expanded production under forced draft, and are thus undermining their "normal" peacetime markets to help win the war. Therefore even the most generous Price Adjustment officer cannot leave them enough profits to make them feel comfortable about weathering the inevitable postwar storm...
...Hard to forgive is the implied comparison ... of the regrettable Benito with Mr. Toad (TIME, Aug. 9). I have known Toad for 25 years, and I resent the slur upon his good name. He is a windbag, no doubt, but generous and lovable, with no harm...
This Is the Army (Warner) on Techni-colored celluloid should make the flesh version's $1,951,045.11 (earned for Army Emergency Relief) look like eleven cents in a deserving bucket. For it offers U.S. cinemaudiences the rare pleasure of feeling generous toward a generous...