Word: belief
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Future. As boss of the C. & O.-Nickel Plate-Pere Marquette-Wheeling combination, Bob Young has plenty of plans for the future. First on the list is his No. 1 belief: drastic debt reduction as the best way to keep a railroad on the tracks during the next depression. A man who practices what he preaches, Bob Young has slashed Nickel Plate's debt $25,200,000 in the past two years, hopes to cut it another $10,000,000 next year. Meanwhile he has put most of C. & O.'s debt on a sinking-fund basis, hiked...
...reporting has joined the ranks of others who feel we could use the Emperor as a guidepost, that we must not broadcast anything overseas which would offend the son of heaven, and that we must renounce a military governorship or invasion of Japan. This unfortunate position ranks with the belief that Korea should be left to Japan as a mandate! This reflects British Imperial policy, of the days of Chamberlain, and his patented folding umbrella...
Freedom. "Freedom is founded on a sense of responsibility toward God and a belief that all men and women have been endowed by Him with individual worth and dignity...
...William comes from a long-lived family (his father died at 92, his mother at 87) and has his last years carefully planned out. After retiring at 70 (he is now 63) he looks forward to ten more active years to develop his firm belief that, given time for research, he can foretell the weather through statistical periodicity-a theory with which meteorologists disagree. His last years, between 80 and 100, he intends to spend facing a large wall on which he will have drawn a chart of his weather predictions. When his forecasts go wrong, he will commit suicide...
...poses is "whether the world shall be governed by one or two nations, exploiting it in their own interests, or mutually governed by all for the welfare of all." This question, which presupposes that men's choice will be World Commonwealth (as revolutionary a concept as a real belief in the brotherhood of man), is the question which Americans must ask and then face. Says Miss Thompson...