Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fault lies in the Army system, which allows any small mind anywhere in the chain of command to destroy such a program. An abstraction like the dignity of man was particularly vulnerable and abhorrent to the small minds. The result was that the majority of American soldiers throughout their Army careers have been insulted by the mutilation of every principle of personal integrity for which most of them knew in their hearts they were fighting. Is it any wonder they apply political pressure...
...about the end of the world, a soldier has as much right to his say as a scientist has. Before the Senate Atomic Energy Committee. Major General Leslie Groves, military father of the atomic bomb, was asked about that interesting possibility: a too-successful chain-reaction explosion that might destroy the world (TIME, Dec. 3). Said the General: "If it happens, it will all be over-and we won't have to explain that...
Reuther: Nothing could be more asinine than to destroy G.M. and destroy the job opportunities with G.M. We want G.M. to be the most prosperous company in this industry...
...Western powers for coddling Germans, were promoting German good will toward Russia. At the Karlshorst conference, the German delegates got Zhukov's word that by year's end removals of industrial equipment would cease. Declared the Marshal: "Stalin has said we did not intend to destroy the German people. . . . We are now bent on aiding [Germans] in reconstruction...
...Administration once tried to make all of its own limbs (the few shops it has now are only yardsticks). But the A.L.M.A. talked this project down. It argued that Government manufacture of limbs would destroy free enterprise and inventive genius...