Word: closed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Defense Secretary Jim Forrestal hauled the top brass and the top braid off to the seclusion of Key West and Newport, ostensibly-so the reports said-to knock the big heads together. But on close inspection, the big heads emerged not even bloody, much less unbowed. Was "unification" a failure...
...Christians would join the Wise Men we must close our eyes to all that glitters before the world and look rather on the despised and foolish things, help the poor, comfort the despised and aid the neighbor in his need. Do not boast that you have built churches and endowed masses. God will say: 'What to me are your churches and masses? . . . Who told you to build churches? I have set before you spiritual temples...
...matter what the explanation, the 1948 epidemic would go down in the official statistics as one of the worst in history. Through Dec. 11, the U.S. Public Health Service had received reports of 27,032 cases, close to the alltime record of 27,363 cases (from a smaller population) for the full year 1916. But was it really as bad as it looked? The experts were not sure. Diagnosis and reporting of polio are better than they used to be: years ago doctors recognized only cases that resulted in paralysis; now they can often spot the milder cases that used...
...suit (TIME, Sept. 27) that meat packers had conspired to keep prices high, and thereby assure high profits. Because of the ten week packinghouse workers' strike and the upsurge in livestock prices last spring, Armour & Co. will wind up the year with a $2,000,000 loss on close to $2 billion in sales...
...came in for some sharp criticism, notably from two British writers. After seven years in the U.S., Anthropologist Geoffrey Gorer decided that its people were terribly lonely and everlastingly fearful of looking like sissies. He came about as close to the mark as gadabout anthro-pologists-on-grant usually do. More pretentious was leftish Harold Laski's American Democracy, a glib, fat examination of the U.S. with capitalism as its aboriginal villain...