Word: nonwar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They Met in Moscow (Artkino), an unpretentious Russian nonwar film, establishes a Second Front in cinemusicals. It proves with great charm that if a director has a healthy appetite for the beauty of the world as it is, "production numbers" are unnecessary...
...jaded populace. But the truth was, Franklin Roosevelt's budget for fiscal '45 was down slightly from the actual cost of fighting in the first six months of '44. He was asking $90 billion for war expenses in fiscal 1945 (the other $10 billion was for nonwar expenses, debt retirement, and veterans' benefits which would be twice 1943's $600 million). A year ago, he had asked for $100 billion for war expenses alone, and had spent $92 billion...
...that the war is crowding so many important stories off the front page of your newspaper, we can't help feeling that our nonwar departments have a greater responsibility than ever to keep you well-informed on the news of progress in Industry, Science, Medicine and the Arts-news that keeps right on happening...
...last week's end, the U.S. War Labor Board announced that preliminary estimates for both war and nonwar industries indicated a total of 3,000 work stoppages, involving a loss of 4,565,000 man-days. On the basis of an 8-hr, day, U.S. man-hour losses would therefore be about 36,520,000. With the U.S. population roughly three times greater, U.S. man-hour losses due to strikes closely approximated Great Britain...
...East Coast householders last week fretted and froze over the fuel oil problem, they at least had one big consolation: thousands of nonwar businesses were in trouble too. OPA's order to slash oil use up to 40% was playing havoc with hotels and laundries, stores and office buildings with their own private power plants, semi-war industries like paper mills and textile dyers. Examples...