Word: shifting
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TRANSITION Sudden Shift...
...average U.S. citizen was headed into a period of uncertainty that could become critical. Sensing the danger signals, President Truman ordered all U.S. agencies to act speedily for a quick shift to civilian production (see BUSINESS). But whether speed would make up for lack of long-term planning, for Army & Navy insistence on high war production up to war's final week, was a question...
...Chungking's No. 1 ally, the U.S. American policy toward China (said Yenan) has become "definitely imperialistic"; it seeks to reduce China to a "colony or semi-colony" ; U.S. Ambassador Patrick J. Hurley (who tried valiantly to bring Chungking and Yenan together) is responsible for an anti-Communist shift in U.S. policy; he had misrepresented the situation to Washington; China must now choose between the "false democracy supported by the U.S. and the real democracy sponsored by the Chinese Communist Party...
...world charter (see below). ¶An informal vote of confidence from the U.S. public: the Gallup poll reported that 87% of U.S. citizens approve the way he has handled his job. (President Roosevelt's wartime high: 84%, right after Pearl Harbor.) ¶An important Cabinet shift...
...with this defensive hedgehog prepared, the Japs swiftly and without warning cut it loose to shift for itself. The crack Eleventh Japanese Army, which had spearheaded the great East China drive last year, was withdrawn from the connecting corridor. Then the Japs abandoned Nanning: every strategic purpose for which the corridor had been conceived was lost...