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"The U.S. Gets a Policy" was a superb piece, but one point requires amplification. It is true that peaceful coexistence with Communism is impossible without international inspection and control of atomic arms; but it is equally true that today the U.S. could not possibly accept its own plan for such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 19, 1951 | 3/19/1951 | See Source »

Suppressing an organization is a very serious step to take. The local activities of this group of students do not seem to warrant such drastic action. The report of the Committee on Un-American Activities raise questions to which we have been giving serious consideration here. But we do not...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Mail | 3/6/1951 | See Source »

Way out in the middle of Boston Harbor is an island piled high with garbage and rubbish. Spectacle Island has long been the dump for central Boston, at great cost to everyone. In 1951 the Coleman Disposal Company will charge $530,000 to truck rubbish to two Atlantic Avenue piers...

Author: By Samuel B. Potter, | Title: Brass Tacks | 2/26/1951 | See Source »

For the last five years, responsible city officials have advocated a large city-owned incinerator to break this monopoly. When disposal facilities are owned by the city, any company can muster enough money to invest in necessary equipment, and can therefore afford to bid. An incinerator would also cut off...

Author: By Samuel B. Potter, | Title: Brass Tacks | 2/26/1951 | See Source »

All these improvements have not solved the long-range problem. In a decade or two, Boston will have no dumping space. The present dumps are nearly filled, and residents in and around Boston have refused to let the Public Works Department open new ones. Boston has long planned incinerators as...

Author: By Samuel B. Potter, | Title: Brass Tacks | 2/26/1951 | See Source »

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