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...fighter plane-of-the-year is headed for quantity production. Republic Aviation Corp.'s sleek brute of the substratosphere, the P-47 Thunderbolt (TIME, Jan. 12), has released its design to other manufacturers. That much, and no more. Army censorship allowed Republic to announce last week in its annual statement to stockholders...
...Hitler (in 1920)-"Today brute force can conquer only by assuming a socialist, a revolutionary cloak. Never can Germany win a war if England is fighting actively on the opposing side. Only by ideologically destroying it from within can Germany conquer Europe. By brute force alone-never...
Everywhere Steinbeck finds atavistic hints and murmurs which carry men far back into their brute heritage. When he uses such phrases as "the deep black water of the human spirit" he sounds like D.H. Lawrence, as he does in his subhuman enchantments. Yet Lawrence's animal-love was a negation, a retreat from human modes of thinking and acting; Steinbeck's is an inclusion. Steinbeck also enjoys the syllogisms of philosophers and the constructions of theoretical physicists-it is all right, all part of life...
...Tribune great under his famed grandfather Joseph Medill, Lincoln's stanch backer and crony ("Take your Goddamned feet off my desk, Abe") and one of the Civil War's fieriest propagandists. Old Medill summed up his news technique in a classic story in 1857 headed A BRUTE. One James Wheeler was fined $5 for maltreating his wife. The Tribune story concluded: "A few months' experience in breaking stones in the Bridewell would do this Wheeler a 'power of good' and he ought to have been sent there." McCormick retains the method...
...newspaper plants reporters' typewriters are almost always strictly marginal machinery. Hand-me-downs from the business office, or bargains from junk shops, they would not be tolerated one minute by any self-respecting stenographer. When they fall completely apart they are replaced in kind. Reporters operate them by brute force, cunning and fatalism...