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...Inevitably . . . this enormous program is dislocating industry, agriculture and finance. It is disrupting, and will continue to disrupt, the normal manner of life of every American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design for Living | 5/4/1942 | See Source »

...finds the key to its irrational pattern in "the vertical conflicts in which nations fight one another, and the horizontal conflicts which are ideological, political, social and economic." These latter "transcend boundaries," for no nation, including the Axis powers, is free of them. "They overlap purely national allegiances, and disrupt the national fronts." Author de Sales warns his readers that this picture "is anything but simple. . . . The vertical conflicts are frequently in apparent or real opposition to the horizontal ones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Dimensions of the War. | 5/4/1942 | See Source »

...taxation and compulsory saving: taxation through a graduated downward extension of the income tax, compulsory saving through forced investment in public bonds. A jobs for the experts, such a program is primarily for economic control, not money raising. Effectively pursued it may save the nation, anything less will disrupt our entire economy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Unpriming the Pump | 5/4/1942 | See Source »

Five hundred skirted Seniors of Stephens Junior College for Women at Columbia, Missouri, are rumored to be planning an invasion of Harvard as arousing as the fabled Martian attack and as irresistable as Professor Merk's westward movement, threatening to disrupt completely College routine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 500 Skirted Seniors May Lighten Crimson Skies Soon | 2/7/1942 | See Source »

...disrupt the life of the Islands, the military gave permission for two Jap papers to reappear, considered resumption of Jap broadcasts from Hawaii's radio stations. Only thus could the Army convey its orders to non-English-speaking Japs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: The Stranger Within Our Gates | 1/19/1942 | See Source »

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