Word: auto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...biographer (A Life of Daniel O'Connell), loosed a blistering attack on Autoantiamericanism, a word of his own construction. Writing in the Irish monthly The Bell, he was addressing himself chiefly to his own countrymen, but his message would make interesting reading for a lot of other "auto-antis." Excerpts...
...auto-anti cries, 'The Yanks cannot be doing all this for nothing. [They] organized the Marshall Plan to sell their own goods over here . . .' Perhaps we had better have a few cold figures. The gross National Productivity of the U.S. in 1948 [at the start of ECA] . . . was about $262 billions. [The world] took from her 5% of her total products . . . Last year she produced $278 billions. The world took only 3.6% of her total products ... If the Marshall Plan was invented to sell America's goods abroad, it has been a total wash...
...think our auto-anti is by this time digging himself madly into a foxhole, over the edge of which he screams, 'I don't want to be pushed about by America. I don't want to be dragged by America into a line-up against Communism!' The answer to that is simple. 'Why not do it of your own free will? Because you do want to take that position anyway, do you? Or don't you? ... In a global war between Communism and democracy (or, again, call it Capitalism, if you will), any country...
...industry let out a howl of anguish four years ago when General Motors' research wizard, Charles F. Kettering, announced a revolutionary new auto engine. By using gasoline with a 105-octane rating, Kettering's high-compression engine could get 30 miles to the gallon. Complained oilmen: to provide enough 105-octane gas to make such a revolution practical would require a $2 billion rebuilding of their whole refining equipment...
Richard B. Kline '53, injured in the Memorial Drive auto accident Wednesday night, has not yet regained consciousness, but has shown slight improvement. The other sophomore injured, Philip M. Cronin '53, is "doing very well" according to Mass. General Hospital authorities...