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...dictum was never more valid than in 1947, when, as seldom in history, the world's military strength was divided between two great powers. Could Marshall depend on Eisenhower, his Air Forces and his Army to make it clear that the U.S. is "at all times ready for war?" Three years ago, on Dday, facing the coast of Normandy, Ike Eisenhower commanded the mightiest military force of men, guns, ships, and planes in history, and most of it was U.S. strength. Not even the most extreme of U.S. military now contend that the U.S. should still have such...
...Germany would get only enough for themselves. Black marketeers moaned. Said one, hopefully: "Clever American people will find a way to beat the law." But by week's end it was the clever Russians who were showing most of the enterprise. Four days after Washington's dictum, millions of American-looking Russian cigarets were flooding Berlin at 2½ marks apiece-half the price of U.S. cigarets...
There are some public-relations experts who dispute Barnum's dictum that any publicity is good publicity. But few of these heretics work for ball clubs. The Lip gets in print oftener, and apparently without trying, than any other five baseball managers put together. Not until this year has anyone seriously questioned the sales value of this publicity...
...Eliot pointed out that the President's dictum contemplated the use of the "dangerous" Dies Committee "subversive" lists in determining disloyalty or sympathetic association with groups called subversive by the Attorney General. A person discharged from the government service for disloyalty, he stated, would find himself condemned in the job market and as stigmatized as one convicted of treason...
...with Holman. It is the gusher which produces the policy on Standard's worldwide problems. It is Holman who refines the policy and distributes it. Actually, most of the day-by-day problems are sensibly solved by subsidiaries on the scene. This is partly due to the Standard dictum: first get efficient and then get big. And it is partly due to the trust-busting days of 1911, when John D. Rockefeller's Jersey Standard octopus had its tentacles cut up into 34 pieces. Though most of the pieces have grown bigger than the old trust, none...