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...kept his head-and above all had truly seen the size of the job ahead. He had been, with Leon Henderson, the first to insist that the defense program could not be superimposed on top of the normal U.S. economy; that there was only one choice between guns and butter...
...officials, food at the Union, (where all Freshmen cat together) miraculously escaped serious criticism. During the history of Harvard, food served by the university has come in for more brickbats than any of its other features. Since the days when they wailed that "the ale is foul," and "the butter stinketh," students have periodically attacked the bill of fare. Thus it is notable that this year's summer members let the Union off with only a few mild criticisms...
...Forum also spoke its mind on theoretical questions. In the old guns-or-butter argument, the businessmen tended to favor guns only-though not overwhelmingly. A policy of curtailing consumer demand for scarce articles was supported by 59.1%; in favor of rapid expansion to meet both emergency and normal civilian demand were 39.2%. Notably on the anti-expansionist side were railway and utility men. But not all railway executives believe that their own present capacity is enough; 19.6% did not believe that they could handle this fall's traffic peak without delays...
Radio manufacturing has recently looked like the first U.S. consumer industry to take the guns-v.-butter dilemma in its stride. Although it faced a 75% cut in its normal business and already felt the metals shortage, Bond P. Geddes, executive vice president of the Radio Manufacturers Association, last fortnight said the industry had "no squawks." But last week he was squawking as hard as the rest...
...refused books and newspapers, exercised in goose step half an hour a week, received one bath in seven weeks. Shortly before his transfer to grimmer, notorious Moabit prison, a Gestapo man told him: "You will sit until you confess. You will soften up. You'll be soft as butter...