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...Germans have by this time built up an offensive force . . . that can take care of, crush, capture and absorb any amount of war material, tanks, planes, guns, trucks, munitions-as long as that material is used defensively...
...Before this district raises funds for the support of an episcopal establishment," he said, "it should pay a living wage to the clergy already giving their lives to its service." Rector Patton thought that the best thing to do was to absorb San Joaquin once more into the other Episcopal dioceses in California...
...more from the mushroomed vocational training programs combined with them to glut the job market. With more college men and fewer jobs, the liberal arts enrollment that had jumped 468 per cent since 1900 had come to a virtual stand-still by 1940. The war will continue to absorb college materials. And the middle class, which has always supplied the greatest proportion of students, will be less able to support a long, expensive education after the war--especially when that education is no longer a sure-fire job-getter...
...stops to the existing 40 (which would bring 90 per cent of the population within an hour's drive of an airport), and sink a million dollars into passenger planes to handle the commercial business with Europe, Asia, South America, and within the states. But even so, that would absorb only 5 per cent of the aircraft industry that will exist...
...Issue of domestic bonds based on these loans. These bonds would be presented as long-range savings and it would be hoped that they would 1) absorb some of the recklessly printed banknotes; 2) deter some of the hoarding, which is a form of short-range savings...