Word: contented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With global war taking more territory every day out of the diplomatic province, Mr. Hull was content for the State Department to fill henceforth what he called last week "a minor role." However, there was still work to do-in Latin America, for example, on top of fine work already done. And Finland-well, Finland would have to be told again to stop fighting Russia or face a U.S. declaration...
...lower reaches of the southwest Pacific, where he had been successful beyond belief, the Jap still had a lot of unfinished business on his books. Until Douglas MacArthur and his Australian and Dutch allies were richer in the specie of war, they would have to be content with joggling the Jap's elbow and spilling ink over the accounts on the most profitable page of his ledger...
Complete transformation is a stiff job, but there is certainly need for some change in the existing University program. At present only one course, Economics 115, is directly concerned with reconstruction. It wanders, however, from the content implied in its title, "Some Programs of Social and Economic Reconstruction." Nor have any of the country's other first-rank universities devoted great efforts to such a program. There is clearly both a need and facilities for an expanded offering at Harvard of specific courses at the graduate level in the cultures, characteristics, and problems of European and Asiatic nations. In recent...
Present tin cans are about 98.5% sheet steel, 1.5% tin. (A recent WPB order has reduced the tin content of future cans to 1.25%.) By washing and shredding the cans, then treating with caustic soda and other chemicals, it is possible to extract about 25 Ib. of tin oxide (readily smelted to a grade equivalent to Straits tin) per ton. The detinned sheet steel, once despised and used only for rough castings such as sash weights, is now in big demand by scrap-hungry steelmakers...
Among the books included in the exhibition are the best sellers: "The Epicure in Imperial Russia," "The White Cliffs," "The Flowering of New England," and "Saroyan's Fables." However, the literary content of the books was considered only as it related to the problems of typographic design and production...