Word: spread
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...account of the spread of the good news about Willkie, see p. 53. Important fact to remember is that it came about mainly through the normal operation of a free and alert press. As people learned about Willkie they liked him. In particular it must be credited to that serious section of the press which over many months saw in Willkie a man with qualifications for making himself felt in a decisive period of U. S. history. With that press, TIME gladly identifies itself...
...simple. His belief in a final Hitler defeat is no mere Little Englander's faith in muddling through. It comes from his faith that "what force alone constructs has neither permanence nor life." The concept of triumphant conquest he answers with Bacon's epigram: "Rome did not spread upon the world; the world spread upon the Romans." Says he: if the Nazis, the Fascists and the Japanese "had even a glimmering of this profound truth they might become centres of lasting world systems. But it is of their natures that they are blind to the eternal laws. They...
With war's spread cutting down the number of lands visited by U. S. vessels, European mail to and from the U. S. has piled up. To help lug it, Pan Am this week will step up its transatlantic service (New York to Lisbon) from two to three runs a week. Bolstered by an extra plane crew, transatlantic pilots, radiomen, mechanics will lie over between trips at Lisbon, may there hobnob with British, French and Italian airline men, all operating across Europe from neutral Portugal...
...import trade. Of this, too, American Export freighters carried the lion's share: long-staple cotton from Alexandria, olive oil from Piraeus and Leghorn, china from Beirut, cheese, rayon and vermouth from Genoa, pistachios, gum arabic, rags, onions, rice and tobacco. All told, the spread of war to the Mediterranean cost the U. S. a $316,439,000 export-import business, to be added to the $470,177,000 already lost in trade with Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia and subsequent victims of Nazi might. This is 14% of all U. S. export-import trade...
...Jews, Strasser "finds the Streicher-Stiirmer form of anti-Semitism ... as stupid as it is repugnant, but . . . would retain, in dignified form, measures of restriction against the excessive spread of Jewish influence...