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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...economy. As an early bird measure, it bore the now strange title of a "post-defense" program. Its aim: to restore Massachusetts' once-privileged industrial position. Its board members knew that if New England insisted on standing "where she always stood," she would be standing still or going backward. Short-sighted Yankee businessmen had lost their factories to the South and West because newer plants had better machinery and cheaper labor. The Governor's planners have what is perhaps the best state-sponsored program in the nation...
...sizable sums for a MacArthur-for-President movement.) Childs summed up: "The influence of the Tribune in politics is largely negative. [The Colonel] shows no signs of being an ogre. It is silly to build him into a super-Führer. To find security he is marching backward into the past...
...commonplace that Russian collectivism originated in a country which was in a backward phase of technical and political evolution. It is also, and conspicuously, true that it originated in a country which was in a backward phase of linguistic evolution. . . . There is no royal road to fluency in a language which shares the grammatical intricacies of Sanskrit, Lithuanian, or Russian. It is therefore impossible to give the reader who wishes to learn Russian any good advice except to take the precaution of being born and brought up in Russia. . . . Shortcomings of the Russian language . . . signify . . . the existence of a powerful...
...this miracle of a great offensive at mud-time. He produced it by turning to foot, man, and tank-power, by keeping his men on grueling marches few other armies could survive. His officers scoff: "The Fritzies are lost without their trucks; they want to ride-whether forward or backward...
...period in which she could become a dominant world power. [This is due] to the diffusion of technological civilization among peoples that are growing more rapidly. Those who view the prevention of a new German attempt at conquest as the major problem of the peace seem ... to be looking backward. . . . The power and interests of the Soviet Union are an adequate guarantee against that contingency...