Word: nationally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...high school age would be in high school, that the number of university students would increase four times as fast as the population, that nearly every family would own an automobile, a telephone, and a wireless receiving set ... that this would be accomplished after paying the cost of the nation's participation in two great world wars and while we were gradually reducing the work week from about 58 hours to 40 ... Anyone making such bold predictions would have been regarded as irresponsible...
...Medical services of all kinds will be used far more than today. The proportion of people completing high school and spending some time in college will rise ... A nation on a 30-hour week will have more opportunity to pursue a multitude of arts . . . The chance is good that the arts will flourish in the United States as never before in the history of the world...
Beefsteak & Cantaloupes. Then, turning on his opponent, he portentously berated him for not discussing national issues, spoke as though the fate of the nation hinged on the mayoralty race. When the Republican New York Sun reported happily that a big bookie 'named Frank Erickson had attended a beefsteak dinner given in honor of the mayor and Democratic Senatorial Candidate Herbert Lehman, O'Dwyer had a strange & wonderful answer. "Lehman," he said indignantly, "has been framed...
...relatively free-economy Continent was wider than ever. The French and their continental friends were still fuming over the fact that the British had devalued the pound without even consulting them (TIME, Sept. 26 et seq.). They accused the U.S. of granting Britain the privileges of a specially favored nation, at the expense of Western Europe's unity. Hoffman tried to deflect some of this resentment. He was taking a crack at the British when he called upon the governments to give exporters "direct incentives." Said Hoffman: "Practically all Europe's exports are furnished by private producers. Governments...
...stood firmly by its plan for international control, which last year was approved by a vast majority of U.N.'s General Assembly, the six Red-bloc nations dissenting. The plan provides for 1) a cooperative international agency to own and control all atomic energy, including production for peaceful use; 2) inspection by representatives of the control commission, who must have "unimpeded rights of ingress, egress and access . . . into, from and within the territories of any participating nation"; 3) majority rule in the control commission, without a veto...