Word: segmented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These donations should be credited to a sizable segment of the whole U.S. press-for TIME'S story was merely the most recent of a long series of such articles. Regional newspapers like the Gallup (N. Mex.) Independent had long been recording facts about the Navajos-especially since 1933, when the Government crippled the Navajos' crude economy based on sheep-raising by ordering them-because of overgrazing and the resultant soil erosion-to begin doing away with their flocks...
...Voluntary health insurance] is not good enough. . . . What troubles me most are the needs of that sizable segment of society which does not earn enough to pay for voluntary insurance. . . . Nothing has been suggested so far which promises success other than some form of insurance covering these people in by law and financed by the Government, at least in part. ... A form of compulsory health insurance . . . can be devised . . . without the Government taking over medicine, something I would fiercely oppose...
...that if Russia would not agree to a peace treaty, the U.S. and Britain would go ahead with the political as well as the economic organization of their Bizonal area. They would probably not make a separate peace with Germany; but they would make a Germany. Since the western segment of that country is far stronger than the eastern, the U.S. and Britain could expect the almost unanimous German feeling for national unity to pull eastern Germany toward the West as a sun pulls a smaller planet...
...make sure that Canadian steel will be fully used in essential industry, the Government slapped heavy excise taxes on domestically made steel and auto parts. The only segment of Canadian industry that found the financial medicine palatable was the gold-mining business. Since gold is instantly convertible into U.S. dollars, the Government decreed a bonus of $7 an ounce for gold producers...
Early in the evening a crimson-clad baud flooded a segment of New Haven with flyers emblazoned with President Conant's picture and advocating "Bryant Wintergreen for President." Few people could guess immediately whether this prauk originated in Cambridge or at Yale, so the total offset was not startling...