Word: axioms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under the workings of this axiom most war firms are now at a 48-hour week or over because the Army and the Navy pay them to pay their workers overtime. On the other hand, most producers of consumer goods are working on a 40-hour week or less, because under frozen prices and material shortages there is no reason for them to push to higher levels. But such employers would willingly do the same work they are now doing with fewer men working longer hours if the 40-hour-week law were relaxed for the duration for most consumer...
Washington last week reproved an old gambler's axiom: the best way to make money is to play with other people's chips. While U.S. airlines did their biggest job in history, it was the airmail division of the Post Office which collected over half the ante. The division's reported profit for fiscal 1942, after deduction of its own direct expenses, was a record $8 million-more than half the total net earnings of all 18 U.S. domestic airlines. Next year the division will probably earn a cool $22 million or perhaps better, thanks mostly...
...Afraid? It is an axiom among battle-tried U.S. troops that "anybody who is not scared of bombs and bullets is a damn liar." The Infantry Journal article confirms this contention, says it is as true of the veteran as the green soldier, but it is also true of the enemy. "Germans and Japs get just as scared as Americans and Britons...
...Freedom . . ." Drucker asserts, "is inconceivable outside and before the Christian era. . . . The roots of freedom are in the Sermon on the Mount and in the Epistles of St. Paul. . . . Freedom is responsible choice. . . ." It is never a release and always a responsibility. Alongside this axiom of freedom he sets another: Freedom implies an admission that man is imperfect. Perfect men who know all the answers would have the right and duty to rule absolutely. The men who believe they know all the answers in this age are the "rational liberals." Their sense of their absolute right to put these answers...
Except among politicos, there was hardly any pre-election excitement at all. The light registration had long been noted; it was an axiom that this year voters were "apathetic." Whether it was really apathy, or some deeper discontent or bafflement, would be clearer after the results were...