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Then up spoke Hugh R. Pomeroy, director of Virginia's State Planning Board: "I have examined slum areas from coast to coast and the slums of Philadelphia are probably the worst in the nation. . . . The heart of the city is decaying and the decay is spreading. [It can't be stopped] by buying streamlined garbage trucks...
America has been in a period of moral decay, according to Mumford, and it is high time that the public assume its duties of intelligent judgment and reasoning. Until each individual faces the problems of the immediate present, he cannot speak in terms of the future...
This mood does not make Manager Sloan call for a managerial revolution. He thinks he knows a better way. "A dynamic economy is essential to progress and the continuation of free enterprise. ... A static economy means decay and ultimate regimentation. . . . Some see danger in bigness. They fear the concentration of economic power. . . . That is in a degree true. It simply means, however, that industrial management must expand its horizon of responsibility. ... It must consider the impact of its operations on the economy as a whole in relation to the social and economic welfare of the entire community. . . . Those charged with...
...Hagemann vowed that Nazi Africa would have natural boundaries, a logical communications network, planned economy and a native policy "along uniform lines drawn to fit the intellectual and bodily conditions of the natives." The last-named, he darkly hinted, would prevent "those indications of social and racial decay which so many American lands are now fighting...
...mankind is to regenerate itself from its present physical decay, Hooton insisted that the physician, who has the requisite knowledge of human functioning, should take over the job of the sociologist and the clergyman where possible, but he strictly opposed mixing medicine and politics...