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Truman and Byrnes have not abandoned old Cordell Hull's faith that the sure cure for the world's economic ills lies in fewer & fewer trade barriers. But, like religion in an age of unbelief, the doctrine of free trade in an age of insecurity is hard to live by. In religion, the prime problem is the devil; in politics and economics it is, respectively, the world of power and the flesh...
Taking off from Harold C. Urey's statement that "it adds up to the most dangerous situation humanity has ever faced in all history," the second part of the book discusses solutions. Dismissing international control of atomic energy as a cure-all, although recognizing its importance in any plan, Leo Szilard sees in world government the only complete security. Neither Albert Einstein's nor Walter Lippmann's chapter succeeds in more than indicating a satisfactory plan for such an organization. But Einstein shows clearly the functions the organization must undertake, while Lippmann sets forth original and cogent evidence that...
What caused the U.S. housing shortage? What, if anything, can cure it? To these questions, which directly or indirectly concern 139,000,000 Americans, FORTUNE devotes its entire April issue, achieving a remarkably concise diagnosis -but a prognosis obscured by the chronic ill health of U.S. housing...
Applicants for personal readings, mailorder horoscopes, etc. waited from four to six weeks for their answers. At least 162 big-town newspapers printed daily horoscopes. In offices, halls, parlors and tents across the nation, whole classes studied scriggly zodiac charts with the intensity of savants seeking a cure for baldness. One astrological annual, the Moon Sign Book, sold at least 1,000,000 copies of its 1945 issue for $1 a throw. The five leading astrological periodicals (priced from 10? to 25?) boasted a combined circulation of nearly a million...
With the truth finally out, the U.S. could now get on with its duty. It had promised to deliver 225,000,000 bushels of wheat abroad by July 1. Even this amount, in view of the worsening world food crisis, would only alleviate hunger, not cure...