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...Profiting from its eight months' experience with drafted men, Congress in mid-June moved to: 1. Adapt deferment standards to local conditions...
...speakers left them no doubt that business-as-usual was dead for the duration. Director of Purchases Donald M. Nelson set the U.S. goal at $35,000,000,000* of defense production a year, which meant a corresponding decrease in civilian production. The purchasing agents were urged to adapt their buying policies to a long defense pull, to seek substitutes for strategic materials, not to hog inventories, so that no manufacturer should be short of materials while another's warehouse bulged...
...encyclical, Leo XIII's Rerum Novarum ("Concerning New Things"), and the tenth anniversary of its sequel, Pius XI's Quadragesima Anno ("Forty Years After"). In these two documents the Roman Catholic Church said its say about social reform, and with its age-old flexibility took steps to adapt itself to 20th-century social change as it had to feudalism in the Middle Ages and to capitalism after the Reformation...
...seriously hampered the development of new programs of study, especially in the senior years of high school. Most pupils are in small high schools, with a limited number of courses. Only one out of every six goes to college. Examinations in set academic subjects, then, force the curriculum to adapt itself to the needs of the minority. The important teaching jobs of vocational guidance, education in social relations, and training for citizenship must necessarily suffer...
...faithful. ... In the midst of contrasting systems, which are part of the times and dependent upon them, the Church cannot be called upon to favor one more than the other. . . . Some have dared to spread the news that the Holy Father said it was obligatory to adapt one's self to the New Order. ... All these stones may have achieved their purpose among weak spirits who sponsor . . . conceptions hostile to Christianity...