Word: directness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would be a lot easier to make and maintain if Russia were not at the Pacific peace table. Actually, of course, Russia would have her say in an Asiatic peace anyhow. Now, whether she goes to the lengths of actual war with Japan or not, Russia will have a direct and powerful hand in the shaping of that peace. The U.S., Britain and their Asiatic ally, China, must face the real probabilities...
Powerful forces are ranged along the border. At peak strength the Russians probably had 800,000 trained troops, with modern armor and planes, in Siberia. The Japs' crack Kwantung army, which holds its mandate direct from the Emperor and runs Manchuria like a private estate, may have 1,000,000 men. The Red Army took many of its best Siberian divisions west to fight the Germans in the last three years; they may or may not have been replaced. On the other hand, six Jap divisions from Manchuria were chopped up in the Philippines...
After the concert, the Minneapolis Symphony's conductor greeted a five-year-old backstage visitor. Patting the small, curly head, the conductor asked: "And what do you expect to do when you grow up, little man?" The boy replied: "Direct a symphony. I'll conduct your orchestra...
Tool for the Job. What was significant to U.S. industrialists, worried by the C.I.O.'s streak of socialistic thinking, was labor's wholehearted agreement that a "system of private competitive capitalism must continue to be the foundation of our . . . expanding economy. . . . The inherent right of management to direct . . . shall be preserved. . . . So that enterprise may develop and expand and earn a reasonable profit, management must be free as well from unnecessary governmental interference...
...with a desire to debunk the false prophets, Mullikin & Hand planned a reductio ad absurdum, their own radar-electronic "kitchen of tomorrow," and showed a sketch of it to their boss. Schaible was so tickled that it rounded out the idea in a burlesque pamphlet, sent it out as direct-mail advertising. By last week, requests for the pamphlet were running ahead of the printers...