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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What were those "rights"? The U.S. can request the setting up of an arbitration commission to be composed of Western and Russian representatives plus one neutral. If agreement on the choice of this neutral cannot be reached, the U.S. may ask U.N. to appoint one. If the commission, once set up, still fails to reach agreement, the U.S. can, of course, always go to U.N.'s Security Council-and there run up against the Russian veto. This was the peace to which 18 months ago Jeeves had so grandly guided the nations...
...replacement capital cannot come from individuals of either class, it must come from the state. Can the state, without calamity, take a higher bite in taxes out of all the incomes of its citizens? The Economist thinks not. In fact, it said: "The long continuance of taxation of anything like 40% of the national income will ruin the country. It will not do so spectacularly in any one year or the next-there might be more hope if it would...
...projects, he drops into Dallas and makes a little speech at one of the service clubs. He always comes back with $25 or $50. He has a few special contributors, among them a policeman who regularly shows up with stacks of tablets and boxes of pencils for students who cannot afford them. Last week, Joe got something he has been after for a long time: a local club offered to buy him a plow so that he and his students could start a garden of their own. Another club had already provided the seeds, and a dairy company the fertilizer...
...lives in a world that is chock-full of things likely to cause allergies, says Swartz. He cannot escape them from the time he gets up in the morning until he goes to bed at night. Going to bed is no escape, either: fresh-laundered sheets may have bits of cornstarch sticking to them; the bedroom chair may have been put together with fish glue. If a man drinks gin, he may suffer an allergy as well as a hangover. Not counting the olive in a Martini, Dr. Swartz lists some of the possible ingredients of gin that may cause...
...high and that it sometimes gave its own cargoes priority over theirs. But a report by MATS, the combined Army-Navy transport services, this month summed up: "The importance of P.A.A. bases established before the war to the success of the South Atlantic ferrying and transport route cannot be overestimated...