Word: decays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...garage two doors away. Orthodox Greeks have taken over the Episcopal church across the street. In a nearby tourist lodging, a Philadelphia gangster murdered a woman with a brutality that diverted readers of Richmond newspapers for days. Rooming houses, chain stores, laundries, bakeries have crept in like the moral decay in a Glasgow novel. During Prohibition a humor-loving cop told Ellen Glasgow that her home was now in the heart of the bootlegging district. She said it was comforting to think that even a bootlegging district had a heart...
...jaunty Parisian jewel thief driven to bay in the Casbah, filthy, crowded native quarter of Algiers. There, like a stallion in a pasture of geldings, he rules the thieves and cutthroats, lives with a devoted but depressing native girl (Line Noro), dreams of the bright life of Paris. The decay of Pépé is vivid because it is told without frills. Newsreel true are the unpretentious, inexpensive sets...