Word: donee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Players. It was done with some of the feverish zeal of the war, and in spite of some of the same shortages of materials. Steel was flown by plane to factories to keep production lines rolling; "expediters" hunted down parts and materials tucked away in obscure corners, or prowled in grey markets for steel and lumber; newspapers headlined the Scoreboard of production like bulletins from the front...
...time industry and labor faced up to this danger. This building up of prices continually cannot take us anywhere except to disaster." G.E.'s price cut would not let much wind out of the inflation. But Charlie Wilson, by showing the way it could be done, had made an open and trenchant appeal to business for a price cut, to labor to stand on its wage-side. Unless G.E.'s example were followed by other key industries (e.g., steel, motors, oil), Charlie Wilson's gesture would remain a gesture...
Freedom v. Control. In one sense, the job that a free U.S. industry had done in 1947 was brightened by what the controlled economies of the world, notably Britain and Russia, had failed to do. Those who shuddered at the rise in U.S. prices-and thought that there was some painless magic in controls to bewitch inflation and the laws of economics-had only to look at Russia. There, what the London Times called the "baleful Bourbons of Muscovy" ruthlessly tried to end their high prices-and low production-simply by taking spending money away from the people...
...Role of Science in our Unique Society." Conant seemed worried, as most thoughtful scientists are, by the horrifying weapons and powerful techniques that Jacob-science has put into the hairy military hands of Esau. The remedy, he thought, is not to stop research (it can't be done) but to give more thought to the sciences (anthropology, sociology, psychology) which study Man and his relationships with his fellow...
...proper scientist should, Dr. Sonneborn spoke modestly of his achievement. But it is none the less notable: he had given his sensitive paramecia an acquired characteristic (the killing ability) which they transmitted by heredity to their offspring. Classical genetics has been saying firmly that it just cannot be done...