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...suggestion was made by one Senator, the other day, that we ought to cut down the goal for our armed forces by a half a million men," he said. "And this same Senator wants to go for an all-out war in China all by ourselves. At a time like this such a cut would . . . not only [be] foolish, it would be downright dangerous...
...lead time" for engines (i.e., the lag between orders and actual production) is more than a year, there is an absolute limit on boosting production. The U.S. did,not start its emergency production soon enough. Fred Rentschler uses the industry's famous "rule of three" yardstick: from the moment all-out production begins, the existing rate can only be tripled in the first year. In the second year, the new rate can be seven times the original; not until the end of the third year are there no limits except manpower and materials...
Both English and Economics are long established, financially sound departments. But the senior men in each--for different reasons--are cool toward any all-out installation of group tutorial. The English Department has long offered individual instruction to all its Group-III-and-above men. In general, it tends to view and drastic change of this, in order to boost less promising non-honors men, as a move in the wrong direction. Further, only four of the senior professors can seem to find time for tutoring...
...General MacArthur . . . would have us accept the risk of involvement not only in an extension of the war with Red China, but in an all-out war with the Soviet Union. He would have us do this even at the expense of losing our allies and wrecking the coalition of free peoples throughout the world...
...later appear to be the most promising." In corn-rich Iowa last week, farm land was selling for $400 an acre, compared to $350 last year; from Ohio westward to South Dakota, swollen farm prices boomed real-estate prices as much as 20%. With the U.S. demanding all-out farm production for defense, and with high prices guaranteed by federal support programs, most farmers reckon that the price of their land will go up a lot more...