Word: pursuit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that I have any objections to Billy Rose's avowed quest in life of acquiring money for its mere possession, but I do not see why such a pursuit warrants his picture as a cover for your illustrious publication...
...Pursuit of Happiness. "During the war we contributed to the Soviet Union $11.5 billion of the most vitally needed supplies. After the war, through UNRRA and Government credits, we made available another half billion dollars worth of goods for relief and reconstruction...
...unhappily the whole course of recovery and the international pursuit of happiness has suffered deeply by . . . the Soviet Union's pursuit of policies diametrically opposed to the very premises of international accord and recovery. In Eastern Europe the Soviet Union, over American and British protests, has used its dominant military position to carry on a unilateral policy . . . by which free choice of their destiny has been denied those peoples. . . . The minority Communist regimes fastened upon those peoples have acted to cut them off economically from the community of Europe...
...longer in the hands of push-button extremists, no longer a competitive pursuit by Army, Navy and Air Forces of a will-o'-the-wisp, a research program has been coordinated under a civilian-dominated Joint Research & Development Board. By mid-1949 the board expects to have a working model of a supersonic, target-seeking antiaircraft missile (see SCIENCE), the first line of passive defense against rocket assault. Sometime after 1952 it hopes to have the ultimate in destructiveness: a supersonic missile which can be guided under full control to a target 3,000 to 5,000 miles away...
...represented the first year in the history of the world in which disarmament was really taken seriously. The Washington Conference, held in the fall of the year was the springboard, and the CRIMSON outdid itself in the pursuit of this objective. A series of 20 special articles examined this and other topics connected with world peace; countless editorials supported the position. Mass meetings were held in the Union and Professor Albert Bushnell Hart 'so said that Americans were learning that isolationism was impossible. But the CRIMSON, wise far beyond its knowing said "we may not necessarily agree . . . that Germany...