Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...psychological traits inherited? Dr. Calvin S. Hall, of Western Reserve University, believes that some are. In the current Journal of Heredity, he reports experiments to prove his point. His subjects: mice. The trait chosen for study: "audiogenic seizures," i.e., dying in convulsions when scared by a sudden noise...
...Chosen Instrument. One of the things Pat Patterson's economics division has told him is that the international air policy of the U.S. is all wrong. When it first told him this, Pan American Airways' smart Juan Trippe was plumping for the Chosen Instrument. When Patterson supported Trippe, the other domestic lines went after him like a flock of hawks. But Patterson has stuck to his guns. The current U.S. policy of regulated competition, on international routes, says he, will not work. He has some claim to impartiality in the argument. United was-and is-the only...
Under his plan, the U.S. Government would set up two Chosen Instrument corporations or community companies owned, and run, by all U.S. airlines. One Chosen Instrument would run the U.S.-flag line in the Atlantic; the other would operate it in the Pacific. (Latin America would be left as is, with the present regulated competition.) Patterson thinks that the stultifying evils of monopoly could be avoided by using each instrument as an efficiency check on the other...
This scheme still has a horrid ring to free-enterprising airmen. But some of those who had been fighting the Chosen Instrument a few years ago have privately come around to Patterson's and Trippe's way of thinking. There have not been enough converts to cause a significant shift in thinking about U.S. air policy. But Pat Patterson is sure that the U.S. will soon have to face the hard fact that, in an international air world peopled by monopolistic Chosen Instruments, the U.S. will have to use the same kind of weapon...
Stauffenberg, the man chosen to do the dirty work, had tried at least twice before to kill Hitler. Other plotters had also tried. In March 1943, one almost succeeded by wrapping up a bomb and planting it in Hitler's airplane. The plane took off with Hitler aboard, but arrived at its destination safely. Reason: the bomb's firing pin had tripped, but the percussion...