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Dates: during 1940-1949
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D.N.B. also conceded that Britain and Russia were developing tanks "along the right lines," but hastened to add lyrical praise for the "impregnable" German "Tiger" tanks (which Allied experts consider clumsy). Of the new American tank destroyers, with their 105-mm. and three-inch high-velocity guns, D.N.B. said not a word...
...They Do It. The formula is crack teachers and psychologists, using hundreds of visual aids. Each lesson is approached the same way: explanation, demonstration, application, examination, discussion. T.I.S. students add three more: perspiration, exasperation, exhaustion...
...Cons. The anti-subsidizers' position is a complex mixture of selfishness ("a higher price for me would only add .0001% to the cost of living"); of sound economics; and of the ancient fear of free men who see the bogey of Federal controls now expanded in new areas. The bogeyman argument has some basis: when Government uses the taxpayers' money to subsidize private industry, it has a moral obligation to check on whether the money is squandered. Sample problem that then arises: if the Government subsidizes General Foods, would the taxpayers' money be wasted if General Foods...
...terms of capacity (based on prewar dollars), the new plants add some 25% to the value of all U.S. productive facilities before the war. But the addition is concentrated: in steel, for example, it amounts to about 8%, and almost one-third of that is privately owned...
California's Consolidated Steel Corp. Ltd. this week flopped the frigate U.S.S. San Pedro into the Pacific Ocean, wrote down a fat new total of ship launchings -268. With satisfaction the 40,000 Consolidated employes (up from 800 in 1938) went to work to add a white star to their blue Maritime Commission "M" flag...